Yes, for sure we can assist clients in providing their employees with a full range of private medical insurance including health cover, accident and injury, medical repatriation and family cover.

Yes. The local employment contract is required to comply with Brazilian labor and employment laws. We will work with you to draft an employment agreement that meets the regulations and also incorporates, where possible, any additional terms you may wish to include. For example, your corporate policies on confidentiality or annual leave policies.

The client maintains primary responsibility for the employee’s activity and conduct in Brazil, however as the Employer of Record, Establish Brazil is directly responsible to the authorities for the employment. Especially as concerns immigration, tax or labor issues related to the employment. We’ll work with you to make sure that you and the employee understand any Brazilian unique statutory requirements such as working hours restrictions, annual leave entitlements and so on.

We recommend expenses be paid through us. Just to be clear if expenses are reimbursed by the client directly to the employee, Establish Brazil will not be responsible for ensuring it is done compliantly. There are three risks. These are worst case scenarios and we cannot say the probability of these situations occurring. It is for the client and employee to assess the risk and decide their actions. 1. Without the local employer of record reviewing the expenses, it is possible that the client may reimburse something that should actually be treated as a taxable benefit. 2.

Unfortunately no. The client and employee must agree what the salary should be in local currency and this becomes their fixed salary. However, the salary can be adjusted, but typically it can only be increased as lowering the salary requires agreement from the employee and may also raise red flags with tax and labor authorities. Nonetheless, the client can pay Establish Brazil in USD without any additional tax and even so Establish Brazil grant the employees payment in BRL currency.

Yes, the payslip will be issued as per the statutory requirements of Brazilian Labor Law and tax regulations.

Establish Brazil calculates the payroll in advance of each payment date and invoices you for the “Total Cost of Employment”. Total Cost of Employment is the gross salary, bonus payment or allowances to the employee, employer contributions like tax or social security, expense reimbursements and our monthly management fee. Establish Brazil payroll invoice will show all these amounts as separate itemized inputs. This is also supported by our payslips and monthly reports.

Establish Brazil, as the Employer of Record, will pay the employee their net salary through the local payroll.

Establish Brazil handles payment of income taxes and employer taxes to the host country tax authorities as part of the payroll process.

Employer and employee taxes are handled according to the requirements of the Brazilian regulations. These will be clearly outlined in your initial proclaim along with an explanation of how they are calculated. Each month we’ll invoice you, in advance of the payroll date, for what we call the Total Cost of Employment. Total Cost of Employment is the gross salary, bonus payment or allowances to the employee, employer contributions like tax or social security, expense reimbursements and our monthly management fee. Employer taxes (e.g.