Recarte: Hiring Spanish employees requires a local entity providing social security benefits
Patricia Recarte · Estonia Has No Income Tax for Companies - If You Never Declare a Profit · Apr 20, 2022 · at 17:41
Patricia Recarte, co-founder of Cado Networks, discusses the regulatory and cultural challenges of hiring tech talent in Spain compared to offshore contractor models.
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“The thing is that in Spain, it's a little bit tricky in that sense, like everything around human resources, social security. So, I mean, if you tell an employee, a Spanish employee that they are hired by a Singaporean company and therefore they don't benefit from certain amounts of public benefits, it's going to be very difficult to hire someone. So they need to be under sort of like a Spanish legal entity to be hired.”
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