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I am not expert in laws but what I understand here is that job position allows employees to work from anywhere but those employees need a work permission in US. In other words, this worldwide position is open only for US citizens. I may be wrong.
There's no need to have US work permission if you're not on the US soil.
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There's no need to have US work permission if you're not on the US soil.
the company may not want to hire a contractor but only have regular employees that just happen to be living outside of the country.
I wonder if there's an opportunity for these third party companies like Deel to put up a job board for remote work positions? This would mesh well with their product as they can say "hey we can help find you qualified candidates and we will deal with the legalities of it"
So the plan here was to scrape the job listings off another site (freshremote.work), pretend those people posted on your site, make a show HN and then hope someone is tricked into thinking this site actually gets traffic and pays you $49? I understand what you are doing but how is this providing any value? Wouldn’t people just be better off going to the site you are scraping from?
That is in fact how every job board gains traction. I've seen it happen multiple times.
Scraping, in our case, wouldn't work anyway because most job advertisements don't have the information we require.
(For the curious, my friend and I are making https://polyfill.work. Developers say what they want -- pay, schedule, etc. -- and polyfill introduces employers and developers when they want the same things)
I was thinking of making a site like this for the opposite ;p. "we work in person". Tired of this scam of remote working. (I understand it works well for some people and companies)
If you hit "onsite" as a developer or employer you'll only be matched with in-person employers/developers. It's very much a work in progress at the moment.
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the company may not want to hire a contractor but only have regular employees that just happen to be living outside of the country.
Even regular employment is OK. Tested that myself. It actually is better from taxation view for the employee compared to working for EU native companies - might not apply to all EU states though - but it does in my country of residence, thanks to the bilateral double taxation avoidance deal.
i'd really be curious to learn more details about the arrangement. my guess is that it looked like employment but legally it was contracting.
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No one is (legally) hiring truly location independent.
legal limits only apply to hiring in countries where the company has a legal presence. in those places there is a possible limitation on legally hiring fulltime contractors as they may be classified as employees. everywhere else there is no legal limit to hiring contractors, simply because it doesn't make sense for any country to prevent its citizens from selling their services to a foreign company, nor has the count…
https://ofaclawyer.net/prohibited-transactions/ is for the US, but I think most countries have something similar.
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Even regular employment is OK. Tested that myself. It actually is better from taxation view for the employee compared to working for EU native companies - might not apply to all EU states though - but it does in my country of residence, thanks to the bilateral double taxation avoidance deal.
how does that work? does your remote employer pay their part of the taxes for you as employee? do they honor your local employment laws with regards to holidays, and what not? can you sue them if they violate your countries labor laws? what is the company reporting about you in their country? i'd really be curious to learn more details about the arrangement. my guess is that it looked like employment but legally it w…
I had 25 days of vacation (standard here, 5 days over minimum). The US company had to register with the local tax agency - there is a standard procedure for this situation. Applicable labor law is based on physical location specified in contract so my local law had to be followed.
You don't usually sue companies for violation of labor laws here - you go to the labor agency and complain, then they sort it out. I didn't have any problems though, so I don't know much about this.
So the plan here was to scrape the job listings off another site (freshremote.work), pretend those people posted on your site, make a show HN and then hope someone is tricked into thinking this site actually gets traffic and pays you $49? I understand what you are doing but how is this providing any value? Wouldn’t people just be better off going to the site you are scraping from?
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how does that work? does your remote employer pay their part of the taxes for you as employee? do they honor your local employment laws with regards to holidays, and what not? can you sue them if they violate your countries labor laws? what is the company reporting about you in their country? i'd really be curious to learn more details about the arrangement. my guess is that it looked like employment but legally it w…
No, your guess is wrong as I had no business license at the time and the local tax/insurance agency would come after me immediately (because nobody would've been paying my mandatory insurance). I had 25 days of vacation (standard here, 5 days over minimum). The US company had to register with the local tax agency - there is a standard procedure for this situation. Applicable labor law is based on physical location sp…
suing was meant to be a stand in for any way to sort out complaints. how does your labor agency force a remote company to comply with your laws? in particular how would they deal with wrongful termination?
maybe we are talking about the same thing, and there is just a difference of what you or me consider a contract vs employment.
may i ask what is your country? the US company registering with your tax agency is interesting. that may make all the difference. i'd like to know more about that.