Payroll For Long-term Assignments: Structure And Key Aspects

This month, our alerts focus on the challenges of payroll for international employees and expatriates. In addition to the set-up for long-term assignments, we will discuss the processing of remuneration elements that are paid in advance of an assignment or afterwards, as well as those that are paid during the assignment but repeatedly raise questions. We will also highlight the challenges from a payroll perspective with regard to short-term assignments for fitters or project staff, as well as business travellers.

Long-term assignments abroad are part of everyday life in many international companies. However, payroll for expatriates poses a particular challenge for human resources and finance departments because employees are usually confronted with two different countries at the same time.