Career Abroad: Expatriation & Detachment

Which status to choose: detached or expatriate?
 

A departure abroad needs preparation and requires a lot of thought, because it engages you professionally, but it also engages your family.
 

Expatriation and detachment: what status to choose?

 

Employment of expatriate looms, because you are going to conduct an international career, so you will have the status of: detached or expatriate.
 

Your employer will decide on the latter, however he will opt for the best solution by analyzing the social and financial implications.
 

What difference between detached and expatriate?

Your country can have one of the best welfare systems in the world, we envy it alot and the the citizen considers it a crucial element in his standard of living.
 

Know that the company employing foreign staff is relieved of any obligation in terms of social protection.
 

Therefore, the legal doctrine offers two options:
 

* detachment: the employment contract of the employee going abroad continued to apply.
 

- the employee is detached abroad for a limited period, as it varies according to the destination country.
 

* the expatriation: the initial work contract is suspended for the duration of the mission abroad. In this case, the employee is bound to the host company by a local contract.
 

- the company may also recruit, especially for the occasion, a collaborator to send him abroad.
 

It is therefore important to negotiate his departure abroad with his employer.
 

Expatriation and detachment: the implications

Depending on the status: detached or expatriate, rights in social protection are different, remember that the social benefit concerns:
 

* the reimbursement of medical expenses, maternity hospital,
 

* the management of work accidents,
 

* the retirement (social security and complementary) or expatriates retirement,
 

* the unemployment insurance,
 

* the sanitary repatriation assistance.
 

The impact according to the status will be:
 

* Detached: the employee continues to contribute to the country system of social security, pension and unemployment insurance.
 

* Expatriate:
 

- the notion of expatriate does not exist in work law, collaborator will be obliged to contribute to the social welfare system of the host country.
- It is advisable to take a membership to the fund of citizen abroad to complete social coverage.
 

Good to know: Many countries have a specific community regulation. Social security agreements may exist between the host country and yours.