Guinea Conakry - Employer of Record (EOR)

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✔ We ensure 100% compliance for your business

Africa HR Solutions flawlessly delivers employer of record solutions to customers that are looking to recruit employees and operate payroll without establishing a branch office or subsidiary in Guinea Conakry. Your applicants are hired through Africa HR Solutions Guinea Conakry Employer of Record (EOR Guinea Conakry) in accordance with in-country labor laws and may be on-boarded within days instead of the weeks it typically takes. The new worker is assigned to work on your staff, working on your company’s behalf just as if he or she was your employee.

As always, we guarantee 100% compliance for your business in Africa.

Overview of Guinea Conakry

Guinea is in West Africa on the Atlantic Ocean and borders Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau, among other countries. French is the official language of Guinea, but 24 other languages are also commonly spoken. 13,497,237 people live in Guinea.

Official public holidays in Guinea Conakry

New Year’s Day

Easter Monday

Labour Day

Africa Day

Lailat al-Qadr

Eid al-Fitr

Assumption of Mary

Eid al-Adha

Independence Day

The Prophet’s Birthday

Christmas Day

Employment in Guinea Conakry

Fixed-term contracts may not exceed two years. If the employee continues after 2 years, the contract will switch to an indefinite term contract.

It is legally required to put a written employment contract in place in Guinea, in the local language, which spells out the terms of the employee’s compensation, benefits, and termination requirements. An offer letter and employment contract in Guinea should always state the salary and any compensation amounts in Guinean francs rather than a foreign currency.

Working hours in Guinea Conakry

The work week in Guinea Conakry is 48 hours.

Vacation leave in Guinea Conakry

Employees are generally eligible to accrue paid leave at a rate of 2 1/2 days per month worked.

Sick leave in Guinea Conakry

Employees are generally entitled to up to 26 weeks of paid sick leave.

Maternity and paternity leave in Guinea Conakry

Female employees are entitled to 14 weeks of paid maternity leave.

There is no statutory paternity leave in Guinea.

Taxes in Guinea Conakry

Employers must contribute 18% of payroll to social security and employees must contribute 5%.

Termination/severance in Guinea Conakry

Employers may terminate employees for “personal reasons” including ineptitude, ill health, or misconduct. The employer must summon the employee to an interview with at least 5 days notice by registered letter and must include the reasons for wanting to dismiss the employee. The employer must wait 2 days after the interview before dismissing the employee. Such dismissal must be made by hand-delivered letter within three days of the interview.

Unless the employee is dismissed for serious misconduct, she or he is entitled to the following notice on dismissal:

operational staff: 2 weeks
supervisors and foremen: 1 month
middle managers and similar: 3 months
Reductions in staff due to economic reasons must go through the trade union.

At the expiration of a fixed-term contract, the employee is eligible for severance pay of 5% of the total wages for the contracted period.

Employees under an indefinite term contract who have completed at least 12 months of service are generally entitled to receive severance pay of at least 50 hours’ worth of wages for hourly workers and 25% of one month’s wage for monthly paid workers.

How Africa HR Solutions Can Help You in Guinea Conakry

Our employer of record service enables clients to run payroll in Guinea Conakry while Africa HR Solutions takes care of tax, and compliance
management matters are lifted out of their shoulders on ours. As an
African Employer of Record expert, we manage employment best practices, statutory and local standard, employee benefits, and employee expenditures, in addition to severance and termination when needed.

Also, we keep you apprised of any changes to local employment laws in Guinea Conakry.

When using our services, your new employee is effective even sooner, since he goes through a much better on-boarding experience. You will have peace of mind knowing that you have a team of dedicated employment specialists, backed by years of experience, assisting with each hire.

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