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Haiti is a small country in the Caribbean, taking up the western side of the island of Hispaniola, which is shared with the Dominican Republic. Haiti has experienced strong economic growth in recent decades: From 2004 to 2024, the country’s GDP has quadrupled and is now worth $24.05 billion.

For companies looking to set up operations in Haiti and hire employees there it is worth considering the benefits of Horizons’ Haiti Employer of Record solution.

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What Is a Haiti EOR?

If your company doesn’t own a legal entity in Haiti but you want to hire workers there, you’ll normally need to work with an employer of record or EOR. This is a service provider in Haiti that helps such companies hire Haitian workers, enabling them to hire without owning entities. Instead, the EOR hires the employees directly on behalf of its client companies. This places it in the position of sole legal employer in Haiti for these employees. In addition, an EOR will normally handle all human resources (HR) functions related to these employees, including recruitment, hiring, contract preparation, payroll, tax and social security payment, benefits administration, leave scheduling, and more. You may also find the term Haiti PEO or professional employment organization used interchangeably with the term EOR.

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What Are the Benefits of a Haiti EOR?

Working with an EOR in Haiti can be immensely beneficial for foreign-based companies seeking to hire Haitian employees. Among the advantages gained are:

Not needing an entity: EORs make it possible for foreign-based companies to hire Haitian workers without needing to register entities to hire them directly. Instead, an EOR will enter contracts with workers and act as their sole legal employer while having them work directly for their client companies. This can save companies the significant investments in time and money it would normally take to set up entities.
Fast recruitment and onboarding: Trying to recruit without local networks or knowledge of the Haitian job market can be a huge challenge for most businesses. It may take them months to find the talent they need to fill their positions. EORs, on the other hand, have local networks and labor pools from which to select. This helps them find top Haitian talent in a matter of days or just a few weeks, making recruitment much more efficient.
Affordability: Haitian salaries match a low-cost of living, and social security contributions are only approximately 6% of a worker’s salary, which is also below the global average. This makes Haitian employees very affordable for most foreign-based employers.
Constant compliance: When you work with an EOR to hire in Haiti, it signs contracts with the workers directly, becoming their sole legal employer. The EOR ensures that contracts are legal and fully in line with tax and labor laws. It monitors compliance constantly and also performs payroll, enabling it to calculate and remit correct and timely payments on your behalf.

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Why Choose Horizons?

Horizons stands out as a Haiti EOR through:

A strong regional presence throughout the Carribean, 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 $499 per employee, per month, no EOR in Haiti 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 Haiti EOR Work?

A Haitian EOR hires staff for your company when you don’t have your own legal entity in the country. Most EORs will provide the following services for you:

Hiring your employees: If you don’t own an entity in Haiti, an EOR can help you to hire employees anyway. To partner with an EOR, you’ll inform the organization about the number of workers you need, the positions you have available, and the requirements set for them. The EOR will search out appropriate candidates for you through its networks and labor pool. It will put candidates forward and, if you accept them, will hire them directly.
Managing employment contracts and onboarding: The candidates you select will be able to negotiate working conditions and compensation with you. The EOR will help in this negotiation by advising you on what to offer. Once you settle on terms, the EOR will write them in the contracts they sign with the employees. It will then collect their personal and financial information to onboard them and register them with the local tax and social security authorities. The EOR may also provide workers with an orientation to your company to prepare them to start working for you.
Processing payroll and handling employment taxes: Normally, an EOR will also handle payroll for your Haitian workers. You’ll need to provide data on hours worked, and the EOR will do the rest. It can calculate workers’ gross salaries, their deductions for taxes and social security, as well as your employer contributions. When the EOR receives these funds from you, it will pay the relevant authorities and then disperse your net salaries to the employees. It will also provide them with pay slips and you with the payroll data for your records.
Administering benefits: The EOR can administer benefits on your behalf if you decide to offer things like private pensions and insurance to your Haitian workers. It will search out and sign employees up for appropriate programs. Then, in each pay period, it will calculate the contributions for you and the employees and pay them.
Taking care of exit procedures: If you need to terminate employees or if they choose to terminate their own contracts, the EOR will take care of all exit procedures. This will include providing notice as needed and calculating and paying severance where appropriate.

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Labor Laws

Haiti has extensive laws that protect the rights of workers. These are, however, spread across various legal instruments, including the Constitution d’Haiti of 1987, the Labor Code of 1961, the Law Creating Social Insurance of 1967, and other decrees and international conventions that Haiti has signed. It’s better to leave this legal complexity to the EOR to manage. At the same time, though, you should familiarize yourself with the following tenets of employment law so you know what you need to provide for Haitian employees.

Employment contract types

Contracts in Haiti can be either permanent (open-ended) or temporary (fixed-term). Contracts are at-will, meaning that either the employer or employee may terminate the contract for any reason at any time. If a fixed-term contract is renewed, it will then be considered a permanent contract. Legal employment contracts in Haiti must include the name, age, marital status, sex, occupation, and identity card of the worker; working hours and schedule; nature of work; place of work; wage; and signatures of the contracting parties.

Project-based

Fixed-term

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Working hours in Haiti

Normal working hours in Haiti are eight hours a day, six days per week, for a total of 48 hours/week. However, contracts can change the dispersal of these hours as long as a regular working day doesn’t exceed nine hours. All hours above 48 hours/week are overtime. Overtime hours cannot exceed 80 hours per quarter.

Overtime must be compensated in the following way

Holiday Schedule in Haiti [2024]

Haiti has 12 paid public holidays per year. In 2024, these include:

Date	Holiday name
1 Jan, 2024	New Year’s Day
2 Jan, 2024	Ancestry Day
13 Feb, 2024	Mardi Gras
29 Mar, 2024	Good Friday
1 May, 2024	International Worker’s Day
18 May, 2024	Flag Day
30 May, 2024	Corpus Christi
15 Aug, 2024	Assumption of Mary
17 Oct, 2024	Death of Dessalines
2 Nov, 2024	All Soul’s Day
18 Nov, 2024	Vertières Day
25 Dec, 2024	Christmas Day

Paid time off

Workers are entitled to half-time breaks of one and a half hours during their workdays. These breaks are not paid. Pregnant women are entitled to two 30-minute paid rest periods per day. Breastfeeding mothers can take up to 30 minutes of paid breaks each day to breastfeed their babies.

All workers are entitled to at least one 24-hour rest period per week.

Sick leave in Haiti

Employees in Haiti are entitled to sick leave or “congé de maladie” equal to 15 days per year after having worked for an employer for one year.

Less than 6 months of sick leave:

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 Haiti

Expecting mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of paid maternity leave, four of which must be taken before confinement. These days are paid by the employer currently but will eventually be paid in full through social insurance.

Annual leave in Haiti

Haitian workers are entitled to 15 consecutive days of annual leave per year, which is counted as 13 working days and two Sundays.

Termination & severance in Haiti

The rules and regulations regarding termination and severance pay are primarily governed by the Haitian Labor Code. Notice period varies from 2 weeks to 2 months depending on the length of service and severance pay is not typically granted for voluntary resignation or dismissal with cause unless specified otherwise in the employment contract.

Severance pay is based on the employee’s length of service, usually it amounts to 1 month to 4 months salary per year.

Haiti's compulsory social security contributions

Social security contributions are managed by the National Office of Old Age Insurance (ONA) and the National Office of Insurance Accident and Occupational Disease (ONA).

The exact rates and calculation methods for contributions can vary based on factors such as the employee’s salary and the type of benefits covered. Contributions typically cover pensions, healthcare, and other social benefits.

Haiti social security for foreigners

Social security contributions in Haiti generally apply to both Haitian citizens and foreigners who are legally employed in the country. Foreigners working in Haiti are typically subject to the same social security requirements as Haitian employees, including both employer and employee contributions to the social security system.

Individual income tax

Individual income tax is structured progressively based on income brackets. Certain types of income, allowances, and deductions may impact taxable income and the amount of tax owed.

Health insurance

In Haiti, the concept of health insurance primarily revolves around private health insurance plans rather than a comprehensive national health insurance system.

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Compensation & Benefits

Haiti compensation laws

The minimum wage in Haiti is set according to the industry in which a person works. It can range from 350 HTG (Haitian gourdes)/day (about $2.60/day) for domestic servants like housekeepers up to 770 HTG/day (about $5.80/day) for Segment A industries. The main minimum wage is 540 HTG/day (about $4.00/day) for Segment C industries.

Overtime for Haitian workers must be paid at a rate of 150% of normal wages. If an employee works on a rest day or a public holiday, they must also be paid 150% of normal wages for all of their worked hours.

13 month salary in Haiti

A 13th-month annual bonus is mandatory in Haiti. This annual bonus must be paid between the 24th and 31st of December each year and must be equal to or more than one-twelfth of the worker’s annual salary.

Social security for Haitian nationals

Employers in Haiti must contribute 11% of a worker’s salary to social security programs: old age, invalidity, and survivor’s benefits (6%), maternity and sickness (3%), and insurance for accidents and occupational diseases (2%). Employees are deducted 9% of their salaries for these benefits.

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Hire in Haiti

What Is a Haiti EOR?

What Are the Benefits of a Haiti EOR?

Why Choose Horizons?

How Does a Haiti EOR Work?

Labor Laws

Employment contract types

Working hours in Haiti

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How does an EOR in Haiti handle compliance with local labor laws?

The EOR hires your workers directly and becomes their sole legal employer. Because of this legal responsibility, the EOR has to make sure that the workers are treated fairly and justly. With their extensive experience and knowledge of local statutes, the EOR’s staff create legal contracts and monitor the workers’ working conditions to ensure compliance. They also perform payroll functions and keep careful track of salary, benefits, social security, and tax payments so that they’re all properly accounted for.

What are the key benefits of using an EOR for hiring in Haiti?

The main benefits of using an EOR for hiring are speed and quality. Most EORs have their own talent pools with workers already assessed and ready for placements. They also have extensive local networks and can advertise easily for more specialized positions. This allows them to find people very quickly to fill your positions, sometimes in a matter of just days. It also gives them a broad choice of candidates so it can find the very best workers to meet your needs.

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What Is a Haiti EOR?

Save Money And Time with A Haiti EOR

What Are the Benefits of a Haiti EOR?

Horizons is Best IN Class

Why Choose Horizons?

Step-by-step Haiti EOR

How Does a Haiti EOR Work?

stay compliant with Haiti labor laws

Labor Laws

Employment contract types

Project-based

Probationary period

Termination

Severance

Fixed-term

Probationary period

Termination notice period

Severance

Indefinite

Probationary period

Termination notice period

Severance

Working hours in Haiti

Overtime must be compensated in the following way

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Sick leave in Haiti

Less than 6 months of sick leave:

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20+ years of employment

Over 6 months of sick leave

Under 1 year of employment

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Maternity leave in Haiti

Annual leave in Haiti

Termination & severance in Haiti

Haiti's compulsory social security contributions

Haiti social security for foreigners

Individual income tax

Health insurance

hassle-free Haitian compensation & benefits

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Haiti compensation laws

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