Gabon - Employer of Record (EOR)

✔ We get your team working in Gabon

✔ We handle all your payroll needs

✔ We ensure 100% compliance for your business

Africa HR Solutions caters for employer of record solutions to businesses that want to employ employees and handle payroll without first setting up a branch office or subsidiary in Gabon. Your employees are hired via Africa HR Solutions Gabon Employer of Record (EOR Gabon) according to in-country labor laws and can be on-boarded in a few days rather than the months it typically takes. The new worker is assigned to work on your team, working on your organization’s behalf just like he or she was your worker.

Gabon

Overview of Gabon

Gabon is located in Western Africa, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Gabon, with a population of 2,278,829, is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. 703,940 Gabonese live in Libreville, its capital city. French is the official language, spoken by 80% of the people. Fang is spoken by an estimated 30% of the population. Gabon’s GDP is estimated at USD 18.27M and growing at 4.2% annually. Its unemployment rate 22.3%, and its major exports are oil (which accounts for 80% of all exports), manganese, uranium, and timber.

New Year’s Day

Easter Monday

Women’s Rights Day

Labour Day

Whit Monday

Eid al-Fitr

Assumption of Mary

Independence Day (2 days)

Eid al-Adha

All Saints’ Eve

Christmas Day

Fixed term contracts of 2 years are permitted and may be renewed once. 

It is best practice to put a written employment contract in place in Gabon, in French, which spells out the terms of the employee’s compensation, benefits, and termination requirements. An offer letter and employment contract in Gabon should always state the salary and any compensation amounts in Central African CFA francs rather than a foreign currency.

The workday in Gabon is 8 hours with a 5-day work week.

In general, employees are entitled to 24 days of paid annual leave. Leave time is increased according to the age of the employee, the length of time spent working at the company, and the employee’s family situation.

10 days of paid leave may be taken for family events.

Employees are entitled to up to 6 months of paid sick leave.

Female employees are generally entitled to 14 weeks of paid maternity leave: 6 weeks of leave prior to the birth and 8 weeks after.

Paternity leave is covered in the family allowance leave.

Employers contribute 20.1% of payroll to social security for retirement, work injury, medicine and hospital costs, and family allowances. Employees contribute 2.5%.
Probationary periods may not exceed 6 months.

 

Generally, employees must be notified of termination according to the following schedule:

  • less than 1 year of service: 15 days
  • 1 to 3 years of service: 1 month
  • 3 to 5 years of service: 2 months
  • 5 to 10 years of service: 3 months
  • 10 to 15 years of service: 4 months
  • 15 to 20 years of service: 5 months
  • 20 to 30 years of service: 6 months

How Africa HR Solutions Can Help You in Gabon

Our employer of record solution enables clients to process payroll in Gabon while Africa HR Solutions takes care of taxation, and compliance management matters are lifted from their shoulders and passed onto ours. As an African Employer of Record professional, we handle labor contract best practices, statutory and local norm, employee benefits, and employee expenditures, as well as severance and termination when needed.

Moreover, we keep you updated of any changes to local employment laws in Gabon.

When using our services, your new worker is effective even earlier, since he has a better on-boarding transition. You’ll have peace of mind knowing you have a group of dedicated employment specialists, backed by years of experience, helping with each hire.

Africa HR Solutions lets you focus on running efficiently your core business.

KEVINA TAKOORDYAL

KEVINA TAKOORDYAL

HEAD OF OPERATIONS

Kevina Takoordyal has a BA Hons Business Management from the University of Glamorgan, UK, with MBA in leadership and Innovation, MBA General, PMP Certified, and Agile Scrum Master. She currently works as the Head of Operations at Africa HR Solutions Ltd with more than 20 years of proven leadership capabilities in Operations, Business Development, People Management, Process Optimization, and Project Management in the Financial Services, BPO, Banking Industry, and Heath Care Industry. In Senior leadership roles with an international footprint across Europe working and extensive Pan- African experience from a compliance, finance, and operations angle, Kevina comes across with a panoply of cross-functional skills. Kevina also serves on a few Boards, Non-Independent Executive at MioD and for NGOs on a voluntary basis, a coach and mentor to aspiring female leaders across Africa and Mauritius.

Kevina is a firm believer in Servant Leadership with a strong focus and commitment to uplifting others, with the ability to deliver through a highly engaged – diverse team, and works towards consistently synergistic value creation. While being a focused and adaptive thinker and Kevina is actively participating in panel discussions on Innovation, CX, Digital transformation.

Kevina serves as Project Assessor for the National Youth upskilling program. She has been recognized as Global Talent in a few companies, Ceridian, and International SOS Ltd whereby she has been awarded a few scholarships and had the opportunity to be mentored by Senior Vice President in the US. Award Winner in various fields and at a national level and recognized including Super Achiever Leader Award in Africa in 2016, Awarded Africa Women Leader 2018.

MARK DU PREEZ​

MARK DU PREEZ

Head of Legal & Compliance

A qualified lawyer who joined Africa HR Solutions in July 2020, Mark Du Preez has experience working in private practice for a reputable law firm in South Africa. He also played commercially focused roles at a leading private bank, wealth management company, and outsourcing firm in South Africa and Mauritius.

Mark has played a pivotal role in Africa HR Solution’s risk mitigation strategy, which positively impacted P&L performance over the years.

He currently leads the Partnerships function of the company including relationships and oversight with in-country partners (ICPs) across Africa.

alex daruty

ALEX DARUTY

Head of Commercial

Alex has more than 15 years of experience in the global, strategic development of both enterprise and consumer brands in categories including technology, transport, enterprise software, entertainment, and travel.

With experience in roles on both agency and corporate side, he has worked across international brands and has led the development and execution of multi-discipline campaigns across EMEA, NORAM and Asia Pacific.

His focus is on driving meaningful business impact through brand differentiation and building high-functioning, digitally oriented, and analytically driven capabilities. He is motivated by working with, and developing dynamic people, teams, and organizations.

He leads, manages, develops and mentors the Key Account Management department, including line management responsibility for the team of Key Account Managers and Key Account Administrator who represent the Company as the primary communication link between all relevant stakeholders, including clients, third party in-country partners and internal functions.

Originally from Mauritius, he holds bachelor’s degrees in International Business, Finance and Management from the University of Nevada, Reno.