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Namibia is a large southern African country bordering Angola, Zambia, Botswana, and South Africa. The largely desert country endured over 100 years of foreign rule, first as a German colony and then under South African control, before gaining full independence in 1990. Since then, newfound political stability combined with a wealth of natural resources has helped Namibia grow into a middle-income country. Its GDP has grown by an average of 3.42% per year since 1990, and growth is projected to continue at 2.7% in 2024. At the same time, the small population of 2.69 million has a high unemployment rate that dropped to 19.4% in 2023. This means there are over 200,00 people looking for work in this country. That might make now the right time to hire Namibian workers for your company, and working with an EOR can be the best way to go about it.

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What Is a Namibia EOR?

An employer of record or EOR in Namibia is a service provider working in this country to help other companies hire local workers. An EOR is able to hire employees on behalf of its clients so that while they’re contracted with the EOR, they work directly for the client on a daily basis. EORs can handle recruiting, contract management, payroll, benefits administration, and other important human resources (HR) functions for their clients. They also play an important role in ensuring compliance with all local employment laws. In return, clients pay EORs a fee for each worker they manage.

It’s important to note that an EOR may also be referred to as a PEO or professional employment organization, and these terms can be used interchangeably.

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What Are the Benefits of a Namibia EOR?

Working with an EOR in Namibia is highly advantageous for foreign-based companies looking to hire locally. Among the benefits they receive are:

Not needing an entity: Any foreign-based company that wants to hire employees in Namibia would normally need to register a business entity in the country. This can involve travel to Namibia, difficult paperwork, and lots of investment in time and money to register and maintain the business. With an EOR, this registration is unnecessary as the EOR hires the workers on your behalf and becomes their sole legal employer.
Language skills: English is the sole official language of Namibia and is widely understood and spoken as a lingua franca. Other nationally recognized languages include Oshiwambo, Khoekhoegowab, Otjiherero, RuKwangali, Setswana, and siLozi as well as Afrikaans and German. This linguistic diversity can make communication easy, and help companies do business in the region and across international borders.
Fast recruitment and onboarding: Finding the talent you need on your own can be incredibly tricky if you don’t have local networks or an understanding of effective recruitment strategies in Namibia. But EORs have both, plus often have their own talent pools to draw candidates from as well. For this reason, they can fill vacancies in a much shorter time than your company could on its own.
Affordability: Namibia has grown into a middle-income country, but by international standards, salaries here are still low. Social security contributions for employers are less than 1% which also contributes to making Namibians very affordable employees.
Constant compliance: The EOR acts as the legal employer of your workers in Namibia. As such, it is responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable labor and tax laws that can affect them. By creating strong legal contracts and monitoring working conditions, the EOR maintains compliance so your workers are always treated fairly and equitably in the eyes of the law.

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Why Choose Horizons?

Horizons stands out as a Namibia 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 $499 per employee, per month, no EOR in Namibia 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 Namibia EOR Work?

When you choose to work with an EOR in Namibia, you pay a regular fee for the service provider to recruit and manage your employees. It will normally provide the following services for you:

Hiring your employees: You’ll need to communicate your staffing needs to the EOR so it will understand how many vacancies you have, their types, and the requirements you’ve set for them. Using this information, it will actively recruit from its labor pool or advertise your positions publicly. After vetting applicants, the EOR will put forward appropriate candidates. If you approve them, the EOR will hire them on, becoming their sole legal employer in Namibia while contracting them to work directly for you.
Managing employment contracts and onboarding: The candidates that the EOR selects for you will have a chance to negotiate their contractual terms directly with your company. The EOR will help by advising you on the appropriate compensation to offer. Once you’ve agreed on the terms, the EOR will fix them in legal contracts, which it will enter with the employees. The EOR will also help to onboard the workers. This entails collecting their personal and payment information, entering them into databases, and registering them with the local tax and social security authorities.
Processing payroll and handling employment taxes: Managing payroll for Namibian workers requires a full knowledge of the applicable tax and social security rules of the country. For each pay period, you’ll need to send the EOR the employees’ hours worked data, including any overtime and bonuses. With this information, the EOR will calculate their gross salaries, taxes, deductions, and employer contributions. Your company will need to provide the funds for the EOR to make these payments, including the dispersal of the employees’ net salaries. The EOR will provide each worker with a detailed pay slip and will store all payroll information for your records.
Administering benefits: Many employers choose to provide their employees with additional benefits such as private health insurance and pensions. If you do the same, the EOR can manage the administration of these benefits. It can calculate your and the employees’ contributions for each pay period and make the necessary payments.
Taking care of exit procedures: When you need to terminate workers, either for individual or economic reasons, the EOR will perform this function for you. As the legal employer, it must check the legality of your reasons for termination. If any notice periods and severance pay are necessary, the EOR will calculate and provide it to the workers.

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Labor Laws

Namibia has extensive legislation in place to protect the rights of workers as well as employers. These statutes are spread over such instruments as the Constitution of Namibia, the Labor Act of 2007, the Social Security Act of 1994, the Employment Services Act of 2011, and many other regulations and international conventions. The expert staff of an EOR will need to know all of these statutes thoroughly. It’s useful for you as an employer, however, to be familiar with some of the major points of law so that you’ll know what you’ll need to provide for your Namibian workers.

Employment contract types

Contracts in Namibia can be oral or written. If oral, a written statement of employment must be provided for the worker. Contracts should normally be permanent, though fixed-term contracts can be allowed for non-durable work. There are no restrictions for the duration of fixed-term contracts or their renewal in Namibia.

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Working hours in Namibia

Namibians normally work nine hours a day five days a week or eight hours for five days and five hours on the sixth. The normal work week is 45 hours. Overtime agreements must be written into contracts, but the employer cannot ask for more than 10 hours of overtime per week or three hours per day.

Overtime must be compensated in the following way:

Holiday Schedule in Namibia [2024]

Namibia has 13 paid public holidays each year. These are a mixture of national days and (Christian) religious observances.

Namibia’s public holiday schedule for 2024 is:

Date	Holiday name
1 Jan, 2024	New Year’s Day
21 Mar, 2024	Independence Day
29 Mar, 2024	Good Friday
1 Apr, 2024	Easter Monday
1 May, 2024	Labor Day
4 May, 2024	Cassinga Day
9 May, 2024	Ascension Day
25 May, 2024	Africa Day
26 Aug, 2024	Heroes’ Day
1 Dec, 2024	World AIDS Day
10 Dec, 2024	Human Rights Day & Namibian Women’s Day
25 Dec, 2024	Christmas Day
26 Dec, 2024	Family 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 Namibia

Workers who work five days/week are entitled to 30 working days of sick leave in a three-year period. If they work six days/week, this entitlement is 36 days. The employer fully pays for this leave. After this time, benefits come from social security, which pays 75% of normal wages for the first 12 months and 65% for the next 12 months of sickness.

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 Namibia

Expecting mothers are entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave, which is fully paid by social security. There is no paternity leave entitlement in Namibia.

Annual leave in Namibia

Employees are entitled to four times their normal work week in fully paid annual leave. This is 24 days for 6-day-week workers and 20 days for five-day-week workers.

Termination & severance in Namibia

Except for cases of gross misconduct, the employer should give 7 days’ notice to a worker who has worked less than a year and one month’s notice for service over a year. Severance is paid at the rate of one week’s pay for each year of service to the employer.

Upon termination, the employer must give the employee a certificate of service stating the period of service, job description, industry, and compensation received. If the employee requests it, the reason for termination must also be given.

Namibia's compulsory social security contributions

Namibia has limited social security system. Contribution is around 0.9& of the employees basic salalry and benefits are maternity, sick leave and death benefits to dependents of deceased members.

Namibia social security for foreigners

Social security typically applies to all employees in Namibia, regardless of nationality, as long as they have a valid work permit.

Individual income tax

Namibia uses a progressive income tax system, meaning tax rates increase as your income rises which is collected by the Namibian Revenue Authority (NAMRA).

Health insurance

Namibia doesn’t have a universal healthcare system. Health insurance in Namibia is primarily private and employer-sponsored.

Private insurance coverage and costs vary depending on the plan, provider, and your chosen level of coverage. In addition to private insurance, some larger companies offer health insurance as part of their employee benefits package.

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Compensation & Benefits

Namibia compensation laws

The national minimum wage in Namibia is currently set at 9.03 NAD (Namibian dollars)/hour (roughly 0.5 USD). However, the government will phase in a new minimum wage over three years starting in 2024. Most workers will receive 12.02 NAD/hour in the first year, 15.01 NAD/hour in the second, and up to 18 NAD in the third year. Agricultural workers will increase from 6 NAD/hour to 10 NAD/hour in the first year, 14 in the next, and will also reach 18 NAD/hour by 2027. For a standard 45-hour work week, this represents roughly 3,507 NAD/month (approximately 193 USD/month).

Overtime must be paid at a rate of at least 150% of normal wages. On Sundays and public holidays, this rate increases to 200%.

13 month salary in Namibia

A 13th-month annual bonus is not mandatory in Namibia. Some employers may, however, use it as an extra incentive.

Social security for Namibians nationals

Employers in Namibia only have to pay contributions equal to 0.9% of a worker’s salary for old age, invalidity, and survivor’s benefits. Employees are deducted 0.9% of their salaries toward these same benefits for a total of just 1.8%.

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What Is a Namibia EOR?

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Why Choose Horizons?

How Does a Namibia EOR Work?

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Working hours in Namibia

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

As the sole legal employer of your workers in Namibia, the EOR must ensure that its actions are in accordance with the law. It does this by preparing legal contracts according to the stipulations in the Labor Act and constantly monitoring working conditions. The EOR also handles payroll and taxes, so it can ensure that the correct calculations and deductions are made in each pay period.

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

When you work with an EOR in Namibia, you’re able to hire local workers without having to register an entity in the country. This saves lots of time, effort, and money. The EOR will help you recruit and onboard workers much more quickly than you could do yourself. It will also handle their HR needs over the entire course of their employment, so you’re able to hire workers worry-free.

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What Is a Namibia EOR?

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What Are the Benefits of a Namibia EOR?

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Why Choose Horizons?

Step-by-step Namibia EOR

How Does a Namibia EOR Work?

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Labor Laws

Employment contract types

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