Guinea Conakry - Employer of Record (EOR)

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.