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Burkina Faso is a small landlocked country in West Africa surrounded by Mail, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Ivory Coast. This country was once colonized by France but became independent in 1960. Despite struggles since then, the country’s population has grown to 24.062 million people, and its GDP has steadily increased to over six times its size in the year 2000. Its current GDP is up to $21.9 billion, and the IMF predicts it will grow by 5.5% in 2024. Unemployment in 2023 was back down to 5%, showing a rebound from the pandemic period, but that means many people are still looking for work. If you’re interested in hiring employees in Burkina Faso now, an EOR can help you find the top talent you need to fill your positions fast.

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What Is a Burkina Faso EOR?

When you work with a Burkina Faso EOR, you’re gaining a partner to which you can outsource many of your human resources (HR) needs. This service provider is able to hire employees in Burkina Faso on your behalf, even if you don’t own a legal entity in the country. It takes on the role of a recruiter, contract advisor, hiring manager, onboarder, and HR manager. It helps to manage your Burkinabe staff long-term, handling their payroll, benefits administration, and leave schedules for you. In exchange, you pay it a regular fee per employee for the services that it provides.

A PEO or professional employment organization is another term often used interchangeably with the term EOR and represents a similar type of organization.

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What Are the Benefits of a Burkina Faso EOR?

Working with an EOR in Burkina Faso can produce many benefits for a foreign-based company trying to hire Burkinabe employees. Among these advantages are:

Not needing an entity: If your company wants to hire employees in Burkina Faso on its own, it will need to register a legal entity in the country. This can take a lot of time and use up precious effort and funds. An EOR, however, can hire employees on your behalf, so you don’t need your own entity. It becomes the sole legal employer of the staff, who then work directly for you.
Language skills: The government of Burkina Faso officially recognizes over 60 local languages, including Mooré, Bissa, Dyula, and Fula. It also includes French and English as official working languages. All of this linguistic diversity can be of great value to any company hiring Burkinabe employees to do business in the region and overseas.
Fast recruitment and onboarding: Trying to recruit workers on your own in Burkina Faso can be very difficult. Without local networks or knowledge of recruitment strategies, the process is likely to take months to find the right employees. An EOR, however, usually has extensive networks and its own labor pool to select from. This makes it able to hire employees in a matter of days to weeks for all of your company’s needs.
Affordability: Burkina Faso is a low-income country. Employees here normally work for low salaries, and employer contributions to social schemes are also relatively low, making Burkinabe workers very affordable for foreign-based companies.
Constant compliance: When a Burkina Faso EOR hires workers on behalf of your company, it becomes their sole legal employer. This also makes the EOR responsible for ensuring compliance with all of the country’s employment laws. It, therefore, helps to create legal contracts and monitor working conditions, payroll, and benefits to ensure that workers are treated fairly and equitably.

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Why Choose Horizons?

Horizons stands out as a Burkina Faso EOR through:

A strong regional presence in Africa, meaning senior management are on the ground to deal with any issues.
Client-focused infrastructure. Horizons won’t oversell you on products and services you don’t need. Horizons offers the easiest platform to compliantly hire and pay people worldwide.
Cost-effective solutions. At $299 per employee, per month, no EOR in Burkina Faso is more affordable. The cost is 100% transparent (onboarding, offboarding, deposit, no extra charges).
A customer-first culture. Horizons is an efficient bootstrapped company. It is not an externally-funded company burning investor cash to aggressively acquire new clients. Horizons is the only EOR that grows with its customer, reflecting the level of care and personal attention provided to each customer. Horizons will carefully advise on the best setup in each country: the type of contract needed, how to structure your benefits, and how to offboard a person while minimizing the risk of conflicts and extra cost
A long-term partnership. Horizons is the only EOR platform with a recruitment arm — a direct response to client demand. If any employee is leaving, or if our clients want to explore a new country, Horizons can recruit new candidates directly for the client. Horizons is:
- The only EOR doing this in-house — no subcontracting
- The only EOR doing this without a retainer — clients are only charged upon success
- The only EOR charging just a 2% fee per month.

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How Does a Burkina Faso EOR Work?

A Burkina Faso EOR acts as a crucial link between your company and the local workers you want to hire. An EOR will normally perform the following HR functions on behalf of their client companies:

Hire your employees.You’ll need to work closely with the EOR to explain your needs in terms of open positions and the requirements you have for workers who can fill them. The EOR will then use its networks and talent pools to search for the right candidates for each open position you have. It will recommend candidates to you that it feels are the best fit for your organization. If you accept these workers, the EOR will sign contracts with them, hiring them directly and taking on full legal responsibility for them. The workers will be employed by the EOR but will be contracted to work for your company.
Manage employment contracts and onboarding. EOR staff are familiar with local contract laws and requirements. They will help you choose appropriate and attractive compensation packages to pull in top talent. Once you and the employees negotiate terms, the EOR will prepare legal contracts in line with Burkina Faso’s employment laws. Once employees sign contracts directly with the EOR, it will collect their personal and payment details, sign them up for tax and Social Security payments, and prepare them to start working for your company.
Process payroll and handle employment taxes. The EOR will collect data from you each pay period and calculate employees’ gross salaries based on their hours and days worked. It will also calculate the contributions you need to make as an employer to Social Security and deduct taxes and contributions from the employees as well. Finally, you’ll transfer funds to the EOR and it will disburse these payments appropriately as well as pay employees their net salaries.
Administer benefits. If you promise workers benefits as part of their compensation packages, the EOR can manage them for you as well. It can keep track of pension, medical insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and other benefits and find providers for these plans. It will then calculate the regular contributions that must be made to them by both the employer and employees.
Take care of exit procedures. Whether fixed-term contracts come to their natural ends or if employees need to be terminated, the EOR can oversee exit procedures for you. This includes giving notice and arranging and paying severance as appropriate.

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Labor Laws

Burkina Faso has a lot of laws that detail rights and responsibilities and protect workers. These laws, however, are numerous and spread over several legal instruments, including the 1991 Constitution of Burkina Faso, the Labour Act of 2008, the Social Security Law Act of 2006, and other orders and international conventions. These distributed laws can be very difficult to keep track of, and this is the job of the EOR. At the same time, it’s advantageous for client companies to know some of the basic stipulations so they understand their responsibilities and can plan out working with Burkinabe employees.

Employment contract types

Contracts in Burkina Faso may be made in writing or verbally. However, there are no specifications made by law as to what these contracts must contain. Permanent contracts are the norm; however, fixed-term contracts can also be made for non-durable work. Fixed-term contracts can only be made for a maximum of two years. There is no limit to the number of times they may be renewed. A court may rule that an excessive number of renewals constitutes permanent employment, however.

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Working hours in Burkina Faso

Burkinabe employees normally work a 40-hour work week. This normally translates to working eight hours a day, five days a week, or six hours and 40 minutes six days a week. However, for many professions, this weekly cap is higher than 40 hours, for example:

42 hours for workers in pharmacies and retail commerce
45 hours for hospital staff, service station workers, and cooks
48 hours for private company drivers
50 hours for hairdressers and beauty salon workers
52 hours for employees at drinking places, restaurants (not including cooks), or hotels
56 hours for firefighters
60 hours for domestic workers
72 hours for security guards

Overtime must be compensated in the following way:

Holiday Schedule in Burkina Faso [2024]

Burkina Faso has 15 public holidays per year. These include national commemorative days as well as Islamic and Christian religious observances.

Date	Holiday name
1 Jan, 2024	New Year’s Day
3 Jan, 2024	Revolution Day
8 Mar, 2024	International Women’s Day
1 Apr, 2024	Easter
10 Apr, 2024	Eid-el-Fitr
1 May, 2024	Labour Day
1 May, 2024	Customs and Traditions Day
9 May, 2024	Ascension Day
16 Jun, 2024	Eid-el-Adha
5 Aug, 2024	Independence Day
15 Aug, 2024	Assumption Day
16 Sep, 2024	Maloud
1 Nov, 2024	All Saints Day
25 Dec, 2024	National Day
25 Dec, 2024	Christmas Day

Paid time off

The amount of paid time off employees are eligible to receive is based on how long they have been employed at their current company:

Sick leave in Burkina Faso

Sick leave is determined by seniority: only two months are granted for service of less than one year, four months for one to five years of service, five months for six to ten years, six months for 11-15 years, and eight months after 15 years of service.

Less than 6 months of sick leave:

(percentage of regular wages owed to the employee)

Over 6 months of sick leave

In order for employees to receive the full wages due to them, workers must present a valid medical certificate from a certified doctor to their employer.

Maternity leave in Burkina Faso

Expecting mothers are entitled to 14 weeks of maternity leave paid by the employer (6%) and Social Security (94%). Fathers are entitled to three days of paternity leave fully paid by the employer.

Annual leave in Burkina Faso

Employees who have worked for a full year become entitled to 22 days of fully paid leave per year. After 20 years of service this increase to 24 days, 26 days after 25 years. And 28 days after 30 years.

Termination & severance in Burkina Faso

Notice of termination must be given eight days in advance for hourly or daily workers, one month in advance for most employees, and three months in advance for executives, supervisors, and technicians.

Severance is paid at the following rates:

25% of one month’s wages for each of the first five years of service.
30% of one month’s wages for every subsequent year up to ten years of service.
40% of one month’s wages for every year after the tenth year.

Burkina Faso's compulsory social security contributions

In Burkina Faso, compulsory social security contributions are established to provide various benefits to employees, including old age, disability, work accident/occupational disease, and survivors insurance (CNSS). The rates and specifics may vary slightly depending on the industry and specific regulations.

Burkina Faso social security for foreigners

Social security coverage extends to both local and foreign workers employed within the country. Foreigners benefit from comprehensive social protections, contributing to their financial security and well-being during their employment in the country.

Individual income tax

Individual income tax is levied on the income earned by residents and non-residents who derive income from sources within Burkina Faso. The income tax rates are progressive, meaning they increase with higher income levels.

Health insurance

Health insurance in Burkina Faso aims to provide essential healthcare services to its population through a combination of national and community-based schemes, alongside the public healthcare system. Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Maladie (CNAM) is the primary health insurance scheme in Burkina Faso but there’s also community-based health insurance (Mutuelles de Santé) offered aimed to extend health coverage to informal sector workers, rural populations, and others not covered by CNAM.

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Compensation & Benefits

Burkina Faso compensation laws

The minimum wage in Burkina Faso is very low at 45,000 XOF (West African CFA francs) per month or around 75 USD/month. Skilled workers make more but the average salary in the country is still only between 150,000 to 300,000 XOF/month (about 250-500 USD).

Overtime work, though unlimited by law, must be paid at the following rates:

115% of normal wages for the first eight hours
135% of normal wages for each additional hour after the 48th hour
150% of normal wages for overtime hours at night

13 month salary in Burkina Faso

It is common but not mandatory for employers to give their workers a 13th-month bonus at the end of each year.

Social security for Burkinabé nationals

Employers pay an additional 16% of employees’ salaries to Social Security, which covers pensions (8.5%), family benefits (6%), and occupational risks (1.5%). Employees are deducted 5% of their salary for pension contributions.

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What are the legal requirements for hiring employees in Burkina Faso through an EOR?

With an EOR, it’s possible to hire workers in Burkina Faso without needing to own a legal entity in the country. The EOR can contract workers on your behalf and become their sole legal employer, even though they are contracted to perform work for your company. The EOR then manages compliance with all local laws to ensure that the workers are treated equitably and to avoid penalties and legal actions.

How does an EOR manage employee benefits in Burkina Faso?

If you’ve agreed to give your employees benefits as part of their compensation packages, your EOR can handle their administration for you. It will sign workers up for benefits programs offered by different providers and calculate the contributions you and the employees need to make at every pay period.

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What Is a Burkina Faso EOR?

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What Are the Benefits of a Burkina Faso EOR?

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Why Choose Horizons?

Step-by-step Burkina Faso EOR

How Does a Burkina Faso EOR Work?

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Labor Laws

Employment contract types

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