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The employer cost is generally estimated at 14.5% of the employee salary.

• Social Security - (CSG) - 6%*
• Training Levy - 1.5%
• Portable Retirement Gratuity Fund (PRGF) - 4.5%**
• National Savings Fund 2.5%, up to MUR 608 per month

*Capped at a maximum salary of MUR MUR 50,001

**Capped at a maximum salary of MUR 200,000

Annual costs

13th Salary - 1 month's basic salary

Standard working hours are 9 hours per day, 45 hours per week, excluding lunch breaks. The standard workweek is from Monday to Friday.

Overtime payment is mandatory and may be included in the salary for managerial or supervisory positions. Hours outside of standard work hours are considered overtime. For additional hours, employees are paid:

• 150% of the hourly rate for each hour worked.
• 200% of the hourly rate on Sundays and public holidays.

Employees who have worked for 12 consecutive months are entitled to 5 days of paid paternity leave. The employee will receive 100% of the salary during this period, and the employer will be responsible for this pay.

Terminations must respect complex rules and the rules of an employee’s employment country. The off-boarding is always handled by the Employer with the primary stakeholders. It may include ad-hoc fees as well as required or recommended steps on specific termination cases.

Terminations in Mauritius can be complex. There is no at-will termination in Mauritius for employers and termination must be done for just cause.

Compliant terminations include:

• Voluntarily by the employee
• By mutual agreement
• Unilaterally by the employer based on:
  • Probation period
  • Objective grounds
  • Disciplinary dismissal

• By the expiration of the contract

In Mauritius, all employees who are terminated due to unfair dismissal are entitled to severance pay. Severance pay is decided upon in a disciplinary committee meeting and is the sum will depend of the length of service

To protect you from unforeseen financial risks arising from terminations, Deel applies a Severance Accrual to all employment agreements in this country.  Deel has extensive expertise in managing litigation risk globally and our Severance Accrual calculation is based on the prevailing common-law or statutory entitlements and local best practices. In the event your employee resigns or is not entitled to severance, all unused amounts will be returned to you.

Full-time employees are entitled to 22 working days of paid time off (PTO) a year. PTO accrues monthly at 1.84 days per month. Employees are eligible for full annual leave after 12 months of work. However, if the employee has no absence (including sick leave) in the first six months of employment, the employee is entitled to 1 day of PTO per month from months 7-12.

Part-time employees are entitled to the number of days a week worked divided by the number of days of the working week (5) times the number of days leave for a full-time employee (22).

Mauritius celebrates 14 national holidays.

Mauritius celebrates 14 national holidays. National public holidays include:

1. New Year Holiday (2 days)
2. Thaipoosam Cavadee
3. Abolition of Slavery
4. Chinese Spring Festival
5. Maha Shivaratree
6. Independence and Republic Day
7. Ugaadi
8. Labour Day
9. Eid Ul Fitr
10. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 
11. Ganesh Chaturthi 
12. Arrival of Indentured Labourers
13. Divali
14. Christmas Day

Contracts must be in English or French and can be bilingual. They must be in writing and signed by both parties.

A contract must include:

• Name
• Start date
• Length of the employment
• Job description
• Termination conditions