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>They are not problem if you do hiring directly and select right people. Hiring directly in other countries is difficult for all but the biggest companies (who
by learc83 5y ago
>They are not problem if you do hiring directly and select right people.
Hiring directly in other countries is difficult for all but the biggest companies (who probably already have offices in those countries and have been hiring in those countries for years).
- ozim 5y agoNot if you hire sole proprietor. You just have to pay such person an invoice like you would buy something from abroad. I work in Poland for company from the Netherlands and I know other people who have "single person company" that are working for companies in UK and US. I even did some work for company based in UAE. You just have to spend time looking where to find such people. Then of course you have to do trial period to see if they won't flake out but that would be the same as if you would hire someone from US.
- learc83 5y agoWe have contractors in the US as well. But we also have labor laws that govern who can be considered a contractor, as do other countries. It’s more complex than this, but in general treating someone like an employee and paying them as a contractor isn’t legal. If this arrangement gets popular enough to disrupt the labor market, you can expect more enforcement actions. Regardless of any actual enforcement, most US companies don’t want to deal with the potential issues of getting tangled up in foreign labor disputes, or getting tangled up in foreign courts over IP disputes.