Expand your business in Switzerland with wage portage

Are you a company located outside Switzerland and would you like to open a business in Switzerland to benefit from its economic dynamism?

Did you know that you could use a wage portage (“portage salarial”) company to expand in Switzerland without having to set up your business there?

Let’s find out how this solution can help you.

The advantages of wage portage for expanding in Switzerland

Support for your legal and tax affairs

Wage portage companies such as MITC have their own teams of accountants and legal experts, as well as business partners.

We pay your employees through wage portage and we can help you with all the issues you may encounter.

Benefit from a degree of flexibility

Hiring in a new country to develop a new business is risky.

For one thing, the working culture is different in every country.

Secondly, you can’t completely predict the success of your business.

Using wage portage means choosing a flexible form of employment that makes hiring a new employee less risky. Indeed, the employee signs a service contract with you, and the conditions for terminating the contract are more flexible.

A long-term solution

Wage portage as a tool for developing your company in Switzerland is a long-term solution in the sense that there is no time limit on the use of this solution.

You can use it for as long as you like, either temporarily, to test the Swiss market’s appetite for your solution before setting up a structure in Switzerland, or permanently.

Offer your employees a certain level of comfort

Finally, using the wage portage solution to develop your business in Switzerland means offering a certain level of comfort to your employees.

Rather than recruiting them as freelancers, you give them the comfort of salaried employment without the consequences. They can benefit from 100% Swiss social protection as well as social benefits such as unemployment benefits.

It’s also a solution for Swiss residents to work from home for companies located around the world, while being fully employed in Switzerland.

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Swiss wage portage: how does it work?

At first sight, the wage portage solution for hiring your employees in Switzerland and developing your business there seems an attractive option.

But how does it work?

Wage portage is a three-way relationship between the client company (you), the consultant and the Swiss wage portage company (us).

As a wage portage company, we sign two contracts: one with you in the form of a contract for the provision of services and the other with your consultant, who becomes an MITC employee.

As a client company, the process is one of outsourcing: the wage portage company is responsible for drawing up the employment contracts, payslips, social security declarations and so on.

In practical terms, your consultant works under a Swiss employment contract and benefits from the protection that entails, while you do not have to deal with the logistics.

What’s more, it’s easier for you to terminate the employment contract while providing security for your employee: your recruitment process is more flexible and you can test the establishment of your company in Switzerland without risk.

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With more than 25 years of experience in the HR field, MITC has supported more than 1,000 professionals throughout the French-speaking part of Switzerland and neighbouring France, and has helped many companies set up in Switzerland.