What goes through the provider
Pay, statutory entitlements, local filings, contract changes — the things you can only ask for.
Payroll and withholding
Statutory leave and sick pay
Amending the employment contract
Local filings and registrations
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Four matters, and no share: what any one agreement covers differs by agreement. One crosses both, and the handoff is where these arrangements fail. The part you are actually paying for, and the part that is genuinely difficult.
Payroll, and the Date It Lands
The provider runs payroll on a local cycle, and your funding date sits several days in front of theirs.
Withholding, and Who Answers For It
The provider files as employer of record and is the party the authority writes to, which is most of what you bought.
Statutory Leave You Do Not Set
Leave entitlement is fixed by local law, administered by the provider, and not a matter you can negotiate.
Sick Pay in a Country You Have Not Read
What happens when somebody is ill for a month differs enormously by country and is never what you assume.
The Employment Contract You Never See
Ask for the template before the first hire, because what it says decides what you will later be able to ask for.
Amending It
Any change to the person's terms is a document the provider issues and the person agrees, and either may decline.
Benefits, and Whose They Are
The provider supplies the statutory floor; anything above it is bought, by somebody, and usually not by default.
Local Filings and Registrations
The filings are the provider's, the evidence of them is yours to ask for, and nobody sends it unprompted.
The Provider's Own Local Partner
The company you signed with is often not the one that employs your person, and the difference matters.