Togo
If you’ve found someone in Togo that you’d like to hire remotely, you’re in the right place. In the next 5 minutes, we’ll teach you how you can legally hire remote talent in Togo—without dealing with huge fees and lengthy legal red tape.
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
West African CFA franc
EMPLOYER TAXES
15%
PAYROLL FREQUENCY
Monthly
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
French
It’s the fastest way to hire globally
Hiring employees takes months, at the minimum. When you hire with Thera's locally-generated contracts, it’s a matter of days or weeks. This means you can hire the best talent, fast, without losing them to a hellish procession of paperwork.
It’s a lot cheaper
It costs just $0 to sign up for Thera, then $25 per month to hire your contractors with Thera. If you hired employees manually (or did contracting on your own), you’d likely be on the hook for thousands of dollars each month. Setting up an entity alone can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
It’s more flexible for you & your team
Can be less risky than hiring employees
Hiring employees is a bigger commitment, and can open you up to increased liabilities and regulations. When you hire contractors overseas, your biggest risk is misclassification—but laws surrounding contractor classification are often significantly more straightforward.
Some people want to be employees
The contractor life isn’t for everyone—some people want the security that being an employee often appears to provide. Though it’s rare, this does happen, and it’s one disadvantage of manage an all-contractor team.
You might not have as much control over your talent
Most countries’ contractor-employer relationship laws stipulate that the employer can’t set fixed working hours, among other things. These laws give contractors more freedom over how and when they do their work than an employee would have. In reality, however, most contractors are willing & able to work on the company’s schedule—it’s a matter of setting expectations beforehand.
Laws about hiring are complicated. If your company hasn’t already established a physical presence in Togo, you have two real options when it comes to hiring. We’ll detail both below—and tell you which one most companies prefer.
Hire talent as contractors
Hire talent as employees
If you’ve read up until this point, you’ll know that it’s easier, cheaper, and more flexible to hire contractors in Togo than employees. Still, there are valid reasons why you might want to hire employees instead. The content below is for you—we’ll cover employer taxes and obligations in Togo.
Employer tax
Social security
Statutory contributions
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Togo has 14 public holidays, and you should give employees those days off.
According to the country's Labor Code, all workers should receive 30 days of paid leave at the end of a year of work.
Public Holidays
Paid public holidays in Togo are as follows:
- New Year’s Day
- Easter Monday
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Eid al-Fitr
- Ascension Day
- Whit Monday
- Martyr’s Day
- Eid al-Adha
- Feast of Assumption
- All Saint’s Day
- Christmas Day
All employees in Togo are entitled to a paid day off on the public holidays observed in Togo.
Sick Days
Employees receive six months of sick leave. Individual employment contracts and collective agreements may provide for more favorable sick leave benefits.
Maternity Leave
Pregnant employee should receive 14 weeks of maternity leave and another six weeks of post-natal leave. If there’s a complication or illness from the pregnancy or childbirth, or multiple pregnancies, your employee should get another three weeks of paid leave.
Paternity Leave
The Labor Code doesn’t require any paternity leave, but the Interprofessional Collective Agreement gives employees two days of paternity leave.
Parental Leave
Private sector employees are not entitled to receive parental leave.
Other Leave
No Info.
Marriage Leave
No Info.
Bereavement Leave
No Info.
Termination Process
The employment contract of indefinite duration may be terminated by the will of one of the parties, provided that the party initiating the termination gives notice.
The reasons for termination of employment must be indicated by the terminating party.
When an employee is serving the notice period, he/she is entitled as well as obligated to work as per the agreed-upon conditions. However, they can take one vacation day per week.
The Labor Code requires notice of termination or payment in lieu of notice before terminating the services of an employee (or even when an employee terminates the employment contract).
Notice Period
The notice period in Togo is:
- one month for workers, employees and the like;
- three months for supervisors, managers and others; and
- five days for paid workers per hour.
Severance Pay
Severance is between 35% and 45% of the employee's monthly salary.
Probation Period
The standard probation period in Togo can be up to 6 months.
Working Hours
The standard workweek is 40 hours over six days a week, except for agricultural workers. The maximum hours of work each day is eight hours.
Overtime
Overtime can be performed in exceptional circumstances and must be authorized.
Individual employment contacts or collective agreements generally determine the rate and terms of overtime performed during the day or night, public holidays, and days of rest.
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