Starting up across the border
Doing business abroad successfully requires choosing the right approach
Merely paying the statutory contributions and social insurance premiums and issuing pay slips is not adequate for compliance. It is not motivating for your employee, and neither is it sufficient to mitigate your own employer risks.
Hiring a local representative
Many companies choose to hire their own representative working and residing in the relevant country. The benefit is knowledge of the local market and awareness of the do’s and dont’s.
If you are hiring your first employee in a different country, then experience shows you need assistance and advice. After all, you are negotiating with a potential employee who may know more about the local rules than you!
Furthermore, most countries have legal regulations, supplementary schemes and rules mitigating certain employer and employee risks.
Are you going to set up your own branch?
What should you take into account?
- Employment law
- Social insurance
- Taxes
- Compensation and benefits (insurance, allowances, cars, telephones)
- Health, safety and wellbeing at work
- Cultural differences
Are you not ready to take the step of crossing the border?
Are you still looking for the right employee or suitable commercial office abroad? Please contact us and we can refer to you one of our partner.
Let’s get started!
Below you can download our English Factsheets Personnel abroad, with information on regulations, labour costs and salary administration in the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Belgium. If you prefer to read the information in French, Dutch or German click here to select the factsheets in the language of your choice.
Whatever situation of international employment you are in, questions always arise about which rules apply and what consequences international employment has for salary administration. Choose from the topics below to read more about it:
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Since 1972, Interfisc has offered international HR & Payroll solutions in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. We do this from our offices in the Netherlands and Belgium, and with an international team of around 45 committed and caring employees.
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- We keep you informed of changes in local legislation, supplemented with practical solutions
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