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How do you deal with the various legal issues, mainly local labor laws, local tax obligations and local social security insurance systems?
by chmars 7y ago
How do you deal with the various legal issues, mainly local labor laws, local tax obligations and local social security insurance systems?
- calcifer 7y agoThat becomes the contractor's problem unless you live in the few places where Gitlab has a legal presence.
- rb808 7y agoIt looks like you can choose to be employee, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/
- calcifer 7y agoI don't see anything in there about a choice to be an employee. Which makes sense, you can't employ people in a country without being an employer.
- sytse 7y agoCorrect, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-compensation/#contract-factor https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c... and specifically https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/data/contract_factors.yml https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/dat... for a list of countries in which we can hire you as an employee.
- literallycancer 7y agoDo you just use 0.411 for countries where you have no COL data?
- emilecantin 7y agoThere are a few companies that exist to provide exactly that service, which kind of look like temp agencies. Gitlab uses CXC Global in my country, for example.
- gnopgnip 7y agoI work for a company in the bay area that has about 1/4 of our employees as remote now, and 5 years ago had none. A PEO like SOI/Trinet is what makes this possible