Tunisia
If you’ve found someone in Tunisia 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 Tunisia—without dealing with huge fees and lengthy legal red tape.
Country snapshot
CURRENCY
Tunisian Dinar (TND)
EMPLOYER TAXES
20.07%
PAYROLL FREQUENCY
Weekly/Bi-Monthly/Monthly
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Arabic
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 Tunisia, 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 Tunisia 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 Tunisia.
Employer tax
Employer Contributions
- 20.07%
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Employees receive one vacation day per month. After one year of work, they will accumulate 12 vacation days.
Public Holidays
15 public holidays.
Sick Days
For an employee to receive sickness benefit, they must have at least 50 days of covered employment in the last two quarters or 80 days in the last fourth quarters before sickness began. The insured employee receives 66.7% of their daily average earnings for 180 days after a five-day waiting period. For up to 180 days a year for each next year, they receive 50%.
Maternity Leave
Female employees receive 30 days of leave. In order to receive 66.7% of their daily earnings, the employee must have contributed to social insurance for at least 80 days in the four quarters leading up to the birth.
Paternity Leave
Fathers receive one day of paid leave within the first seven days following the birth of the child.
Parental Leave
A lump sum of the insured’s daily average quarterly earnings is given.
Other Leave
Work-related injury leave: There is no qualifying period, but the accident must be reported to the employer within 48 hours and to be assessed. The injured employer will receive 66.7% of their average daily earnings for the highest-paid period before the disability began. Payments will be given after a three-day waiting period and last until the employee has recovered.
Termination Process
For an employer to terminate an employer, they must present a significant and just cause. Before the dismissal, the employee has the right to appeal their case before a discipline council.
Notice Period
One month’s notice period should be given in writing.
Severance Pay
Employees are entitled to severance pay unless they have been terminated for misconduct. Payment is calculated as one day’s pay for each month of employment. The maximum amount of severance is three months’ pay.
Probation Period
Depending on the type of employment probation period ranges from 6 to 9 months.
Working Hours
A work week is 5 days and should not exceed 48 hours.
Overtime
A workday should not exceed 10 hours per day or 60 hours per week.
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