Compliantly hire your distributed team members in
Kuwait
To hire new employees in
Kuwait
, your business must have a local legal entity or an Employer of Record like Borderless in place already. Then there’s the management of local employment compliance, taxes, benefits, payroll, and more. Hiring contractors poses similar challenges.
Borderless handles all of that for you, so you can focus on getting to work with your new team member in
Kuwait
while staying fully compliant with local laws and compliance.
Arabic
Kuwaiti Dinar (د.ك, KWD)
Monthly
8 days
11.50%
49.40 (2021)
30 days
15 days
70 days
In many countries like
Kuwait
, the treatment of employees and contractors is different. If you misclassify a new team member, you could be subjected to penalties and fines. Let Borderless get this right for you, so you don’t have to worry.
KWD 75 per month.
The standard working hours are 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week. Overtime pay is 1.25 times the employee's regular wage and employees cannot work more than 2 hours overtime per day.
Bereavement leave: A Muslim woman who loses her spouse is entitled to a 4 months and 10 days of fully compensated leave. Meanwhile, non Muslim women are entitled to 21 days of paid leave.
For all Borderless customers, employee payments will be made in equal monthly installments on or before the last working day of each calendar month, payable in arrears.
11.5%: Pensions
Individuals in Kuwait are not subject to personal income tax.
A 3 months' notice is mandatory for terminating employees with a monthly salary and a month notice for terminating employees with other payroll cycles.
The notice period for employees with a monthly salary is 3 months.
The maximum probation period is 100 days.
Severance pay depends on the employee's length of employment and their payroll cycle. For monthly salary employees, they are entitled to 15 days of pay for every year of employment, capping at 5 years. Meanwhile, for hourly employees, they are entitled to 10 days pay for every year of employment, capping at 5 years.
When the world is your competition, it pays to incentivize new hires and existing alike. Borderless benefits packages typically include:
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