Compliantly hire your distributed team members in
Germany
To hire new employees in
Germany
, your business must have a local legal entity or an Employer of Record like Borderless in place already. Then there’s the management of local employment compliance, taxes, benefits, payroll, and more. Hiring contractors poses similar challenges.
Borderless handles all of that for you, so you can focus on getting to work with your new team member in
Germany
while staying fully compliant with local laws and compliance.
German
Euro (€, EUR)
Monthly
9 days
Around 20%
$$$$ (26 of 140, Q2 2023)
Up to 24 days
6 weeks
14 weeks
In many countries like
Germany
, the treatment of employees and contractors is different. If you misclassify a new team member, you could be subjected to penalties and fines. Let Borderless get this right for you, so you don’t have to worry.
€12.41 per hour (as of 2024)
Working hours are typically 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week. Monday through Friday is the standard workweek. Additional overtime pay is not legally mandated. Overtime can be compensated in either additional paid time off or money, at the discretion of the employer. Overtime is defined as hours worked outside of normal working hours. Employees can work up to 2 hours of overtime per day and 12 hours per week. Employees are paid the same hourly rate for extra hours worked as they are for their regular salary. Employees must notify their employers four days in advance of any planned overtime.
There is no additional payment detail for Germany.
For all Borderless customers, employee payments will be made in equal monthly installments on or before the last working day of each calendar month, payable in arrears.
Employers in Germany may provide any number of reasons for terminating an employee. Any dismissal from the employer's end must be justified if the employee has been working for over six months. Here are possible reasons.
An employer's statutory notice period is determined by the length of employment, with a minimum of four weeks for those employed for less than nine months and up to seven months for those employed for more than twenty years.
A probationary period can last up to 6 months. The statutory notice period for the start of a new employment relationship is two weeks.
Except as otherwise provided in other applicable regulations, the applicable statutory notice period can be reduced to a minimum of two weeks during the probationary period (e.g. a collective bargaining agreement). During the probationary period, the employer does not need a reason to fire the employee. A probationary period termination is only ineffective if it is immoral or contrary to faith.
In Germany, there is no legal entitlement to severance pay.
When the world is your competition, it pays to incentivize new hires and existing alike. Borderless benefits packages typically include:
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