Benefits Beyond Pay: What Employees Gain from EOR Relationships

How will your employees feel about being employed through an EOR?

The truth is that misconceptions about EORs exist, and that employees may have some fear of the unknown about working for you, as a company, through an EOR in Africa. But once you take a good look at these fears, you quickly realise that they can easily be dispelled. In this article, we cover all the benefits your employees stand to gain from working through an EOR and discuss common misconceptions surrounding employment through an EOR.

Access to global jobs

As an organisation, you may not realise this, but when you expand to African countries through an EOR, you simultaneously create jobs for local African workers – offering opportunities they may not otherwise have had in their own countries. As such, EORs can provide openings and opportunities for local workers, offering professional experiences in roles, industries, or in companies that locals could not access within Africa.
For example, workers may find that they are able to specialise in a branch of a technology they would not have had access to otherwise, thanks to your expansion on the continent.
On a larger scale, this helps attenuate the brain drain issues many African countries face, which slow down growth.

Career development & growth prospects

As a company expanding to Africa, your employer duties – which include onboarding, payroll processing, tax calculation and remittance to the correct authorities at the right time, keeping abreast of regulatory updates that impact your workers, ensuring compliance at all times, employee benefits administration (pension contributions, leave management, offboarding and more) – will take a good chunk of your time and resources if you do not outsource them.
Outsourcing these duties through an EOR unlocks more time, attention, and resources to focus on what really matters: your employees, their skills, and how both can grow to better support your business activities. EORs help you free up the time you need to better train your workers, and to individually focus on their qualities, areas of improvement and more.
For your workers, this means more opportunities for growth, responsibility-taking, and upskilling within the workplace.

Access to world-class employee benefits

Because Employers of Record (EOR) work with several clients, they can often negotiate better health and life insurance packages for your workers – typically offering wider coverage (with dental plans or superior in-patient benefits for example) for lower prices. In this way, employees can benefit from world-class employee benefits in Africa itself.

As an organisation, this can also help you extend the same benefits to your employees wherever they are in the world, creating a fairer workplace and facilitating the implementation of your group policies in Africa.

This has the added benefit of allowing free movement to your employees across different locations in the world. Since there won’t be an adjustment to be made in terms of employee benefits, sending employees on mid to long-term overseas mission will not require you to spend more to align with group policies overseas.

Thank to this, your African employees’ may also see their chances of going on overseas missions increase.

Africa HR Solutions’ expansive health insurance packages

As a full-service Africa-focused EOR, Africa HR Solutions offers a wide range of benefits to its clients’ and to their workers. Among those are extensive health insurance benefits. Together with internationally renowned insurer Unisure, Africa HR Solutions offers internationally regulated, internationally transferable and customisable health insurance plans to better suit each individual’s needs and each employer’s budget.

FREE life insurance cover for ALL your eligible EOR employees

Africa HR Solutions offers FREE life insurance valued at $20,000 to all its clients’ eligible employees. This insurance cover applies to our EOR clients’ employees, and requires minimal documentation, and NO underwriting. An employee who is also a cancer patient for instance, would still be eligible for this life insurance (subject to a few minimal conditions such as the age range).

Full employment rights respect

EORs like Africa HR Solutions take compliance seriously. As a company managing your own HR and payroll, it is all-too easy to make mistakes at times, or to have new regulations slip from under your radar. Unfortunately, compliance errors – especially when they concern labour laws – are unforgiving and your company risks getting fined, sued, or have its reputation damaged.

Africa HR Solutions ensures that you don’t have to run such risks thanks to our diligent team members always on the lookout for new regulations. Our local presence and understanding of formal and informal local rules make it so that your employees will not fear for their rights even in less frequently occurring scenarios like paternity leave requests, for instance.

Africa HR Solutions is your gateway to Africa, and to a healthy relationship between your employees and your EOR provider.

Find out more about our EOR offer, and how your employees in Africa can receive FREE life insurance through Africa HR Solutions.

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Achieve peace of mind for your business operations across Africa with Africa HR Solutions, your trusted compliance partner. Streamline your payroll process and ensure adherence to regulations effortlessly. Contact us today for a worry-free expansion journey

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