- Overview: Uzbekistan
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Global Employer of Record / EOR in Uzbekistan
Global employment services
Businesses in the process of expanding globally often face challenges when it comes to compliantly onboarding employees in foreign countries. In most cases, legal compliance requires the establishment of a legal in-country business entity, a complex, costly and time-consuming process that many employers are not ready to undertake.
To help your organization legally onboard and payroll a workforce in Uzbekistan, Acumen International offers a global employment solution via our Global Employer of Record (EOR) designed to help you circumvent the legalities of direct hiring, eliminating the need for you to establish a legal entity in Uzbekistan in order to conduct business there.
Employer of Record solution in Uzbekistan
Employer of Record is an integrated solution designed to help you hire and manage your remote employees in Uzbekistan, which includes:
- familiarizing with the country’s employment legislation
- onboarding of employees
- payrolling employees on a monthly basis in local currency/ies
- arranging for business visa and work permit if you need to employ expatriate personnel in Uzbekistan.
Acumen Employer of Record can promptly employ the selected candidate (or multiple prospects) on your behalf in Uzbekistan. We become your trusted partner and guide you through local labor laws thus eliminating:
- any and all employment risks
- the need to go into legislative specifics and set everything up on your own
- all local labor issues.
Handing all these compulsory global employment processes to experts will spare your precious business hours for more strategic task solving.
Spotlight on Uzbekistan:
Uzbekistan, officially Republic of Uzbekistan – country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest and north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east and southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest. The autonomous republic of Qoraqalpoghiston (Karakalpakstan) is located in the western third of the country. The Soviet government established the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as a constituent (union) republic of the U.S.S.R. in 1924. Uzbekistan declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 31, 1991.
- Capital: Tashkent.
- Population: 30,023,709.
- Local currency: Uzbek som.
- Industries: Agriculture plays a major role in the country’s economy. Main agricultural products include cotton, vegetables, fruits, grain, and livestock. Uzbekistan is also rich in coal, zinc, copper, tungsten, uranium, and silver.
Employment in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan employers (all resident legal entities) must obtain work permits for foreign nationals who are either directly employed by them or seconded to Uzbekistan by foreign companies.
There is no special regime for foreign nationals working in Uzbekistan, although there is a general requirement for work permits. Such work permits legalize foreigners’ work activities and also gives them the full right to reside in Uzbekistan year-round by obtaining a work visa, or IM-1 visa.
It is important to know that the work permit is issued for a maximum term of one year and can be renewed for a similar term.
Employment Relationship Regulation in Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan, there is a necessity of written employment contract. Types of employment agreements:
- Fixed-term agreements, – any limitations, such as max duration or a number of fixed-term agreements. A fixed-term agreement can be signed only once, every following contact extension or additional fixed-term agreement will be classified as an indefinite agreement.
- Indefinite term agreement.
In case of an employee leaving the company on his own will or by mutual agreement the final dismissal payment consists of:
- payment for unused (accrued) vacation days
- final month’s salary.
In case the employer terminates the employment the final payment consists of:
- payment for unused (accrued) vacation days
- 2 months salary (notice period)
- 1-month compensation (severance).
Employ your Selected Workforce in Uzbekistan via Acumen’s Employer of Record / EOR Solution
Acumen’s Global employment services are designed to provide our clients with professional assistance to meet their global HR needs, such as:
- Global talent acquisition and retention
- Global expansion, to help you quickly enter new global markets without legal and HR compliance risks
- Local support for international clients and their expat employees
Businesses desiring to hire local employees should be prepared to pay competitive salaries, to attract and retain the most qualified candidates. As a global employment organization, Acumen International serves both end employers and service companies representing international clients.
Acumen’s Employer of Record (EOR) service in Uzbekistan offers an efficient and inexpensive alternative to direct hiring. Our solution gives companies the opportunity to operate in Uzbekistan, and in 190 international markets where we serve our clients, without registering as a local business entity.
Legally Onboard and Payroll your Employees in Uzbekistan with Acumen’s Global Employment Solution
Reduce your risks while expanding your business, without establishing your own legal entity in Uzbekistan. Leave it to Acumen to hire and compensate your employees on your behalf, so you can focus on growing your business.
Acumen’s EOR global employment solution helps businesses to overcome legal challenges by hiring and compensating your local and expat workforce in Uzbekistan on your behalf, in a risk-free and cost-effective manner.
Partner with Acumen International, and let us help you handle your global employment and HR needs. You can trust Acumen to handle the global employment and HR details of your workforce management in Uzbekistan, to ensure full compliance with in-country employment laws and changing COVID-19 regulations.
In addition to legally onboarding local citizens, we are able to organize work permits and business visa sponsorship for your expatriate team via our Employer of Record, and employ them on your behalf, once legal permissions have been attained.
With Acumen, you can rest assured that all legal requirements are met for compliant hiring and compensating of your local and expatriate employees in Uzbekistan, and in 190 countries worldwide where we serve our international clients.