Your team is essential to your success in Panama and beyond. When you take the time to hire talented employees and onboard them successfully, you’re investing in the health of your company...
Read MoreYour team is essential to your success in Panama and beyond. When you take the time to hire talented employees and onboard them successfully, you’re investing in the health of your company for years to come. However, some companies don’t have the time to deal with recruiting, hiring, and onboarding when they’re also managing many other complicated aspects of an expansion.
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Your team is essential to your success in Panama and beyond. When you take the time to hire talented employees and onboard them successfully, you’re investing in the health of your company for years to come. However, some companies don’t have the time to deal with recruiting, hiring, and onboarding when they’re also managing many other complicated aspects of an expansion.
That’s why Globalization Partners offers Panama hiring outsourcing to companies that are ready to open a subsidiary in the country. We will recruit the right candidates for your open positions or onboard people you’ve already chosen. You won’t have to worry about compliance or the stress of hiring, as we’ll act as the Employer of Record.
As important as it is to understand cultural norms, you must consider other aspects when staffing and recruiting. While mapping out your overseas expansion, it’s crucial to think through your options for sourcing the best local talent. This includes considering which recruitment channels will work best for your needs and how to stay compliant with local laws through every stage of the process.
When it comes to staffing in Panama, you can have your in-house team manage the recruitment process from day one. This will entail posting your open positions on job boards and advertising in local newspapers. However, if you need to make hiring decisions quickly and don’t have any resources established in-country, this may not be an advisable route for your business.
Another popular option includes outsourcing the recruitment process. To do this, you can partner with either a traditional hiring agency or a global PEO, also known as an employer of record. Keep in mind that a recruitment agency won’t help you comply with local laws. Instead, you’ll be in charge of ensuring every detail of your recruiting, onboarding, and subsequent employment is legally compliant.
For this reason, many businesses decide to work with a global PEO that can act as the employer of record. This mitigates your risk and ensures you can hire the local talent you need without managing the fine print of unique in-country employment regulations.
The country has several labor law specifications designed to protect the rights of local employees. When creating a recruitment and staffing strategy, keep these regulations in mind to ensure you’re advertising your position and job requirements correctly:
When hiring Panama employees, you’ll need a written contract. Contracts for an indefinite period, a defined period, and for a specific work are permitted, though fixed-term contracts cannot exceed one year in duration. Law requires that contracts include specific details including place of work, contract duration, compensation, and duties.
You must create three different employment contract copies — one for you, one for the employee, and another that will be filed with the Ministry of Labor. You can add any terms to the contract that are relevant to employment, but you should always include compensation, benefits, termination requirements, working hours, and related factors.
Panama’s employment compliance laws include two principal items for an employment relationship. The first is legal subordination, which is the employer’s right to control or direct the employee and the employee’s duty to obey the employer. The second is economic dependency, which is when the employee’s only source of income is from you and is financially dependent on you.
As an employer, you need to meet certain laws during and after the hiring process. For example, employers have to register with Panama’s Social Security Fund, Caja de Seguro Social (CSS), once starting operations with at least one employee. After registering, CSS will grant all employers a number of employer. You’re responsible for ensuring that all employees are registered with social security within six business days of starting work with your company.
Onboarding employees can be as long or short as you need it to be. Start by making sure employees sign their employment contract before they start working. Based on their previous experience, you should enroll them in a training program to help them learn about their new jobs and your company. Finally, help employees meet each other by hosting events and encouraging collaboration.
Panama hiring outsourcing with Globalization Partners is the best way for you to save time during your expansion to Panama. You won’t need to worry about establishing your own subsidiary when you can instead work through our existing infrastructure. Our team will use that infrastructure to hire employees through our global PEO but assign them to work for you. Every employee will have a positive hiring experience and get to start work for your company immediately.
Globalization Partners is truly the partner you need for a worry-free expansion. Contact us today to learn more about Panama hiring outsourcing with our team.
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