No.
If your business is not registered in the Philippines, then the answer is no!
You don’t need to worry about maternity leave, benefits, severance pay, or anything that you’d typically be responsible for if you hired an “employee” in your home country.
Unless you hire them through an employer of record (EOR) in the Philippines, your virtual staff are classified as independent contractors. Maternity leave and benefits are only available for workers under an employer-employee relationship if hired by a Philippine employer.
This is one of the big reasons why businesses love to hire virtual assistants and remote staff in the Philippines.
- They save thousands of dollars per year on salary costs.
- They avoid the red tape and bureaucracy of an employer/employee relationship.
- They hire excellent quality staff.
Suppose you want to hire staff in the Philippines and pay them benefits and other stuff such as health insurance and social security. You can do that by hiring staff through an EOR or using our Enterprise Solution.