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Global Mobility/Human Capital Services | Dentons
How Dentons can support you with your (inter-)national employment challenges.
Navigating an ever-changing global (employment) tax, social security, immigration and legal landscape is challenging for all employers. Effectively having a global workforce performing employment activities can trigger complexities when pursuing efficiency and compliance.
At Dentons, they advise global businesses and organizations and their employees on the tax, social security, immigration and legal aspects of international work in the broadest sense. Their expertise covers all forms of cross-border employment, including but not limited to international assignments, permanent (international) transfers, split employments, remote work, teleworking, cross-border commuting, frequent business travel and workations. Our team provides pragmatic and business-minded solutions to the challenges and opportunities that operating internationally brings.
Covering the phases from policy design, structuring to implementation and compliance, Dentons provides efficient end-to-end assistance for internationally mobile employees to ensure your global workforce receives the best possible support and you remain in control of international employment.
Dentons' Global Mobility team in cooperation with their tax and legal colleagues can act as a ‘one-stop-shop’ and assist you with the following services:
• Global Mobility Advisory
• Global Mobility Compliance
• Payroll – including rightful allocation/sourcing of income
• Policy & Process Design
• Permanent Establishment
• Equity Compensation
• Executive Remuneration, including management/private equity participation schemes
• Employment and Labor law
• Immigration
Global Mobility Advisory
Dentons provides proactive, pragmatic cross-border employment advisory and compliance support with respect to income and wage tax, social security and immigration on all sorts of international employment scenario’s, including:
• International assignments
• Permanent (international) transfers
• Split employments
• Remote work
• Teleworking
• Cross-border commuting
• Frequent business travel
• Workations
• Etc.
Global Mobility Compliance
Your business and employees can face tax compliance obligations resulting from international employment situations, such as assignments, transfers, working (remotely) in 2 or more countries and when on business trip. Dentons' specialists work with you and your employees to ensure robust compliance, developing processes around your organization designed to maximize compliance.
Payroll
A global workforce brings complexity for employers and payroll management is a key challenge. Dentons' specialists can provide support to companies and organizations in advising with respect to meeting and managing local (shadow) payroll obligations in order to report and pay (allocated) income taxes and social security premiums accurately across international locations.
Policy & Process Design
Your policies and process for managing employee global mobility and taxes provide the framework for success. With broad experience across industries and public and private, Dentons' global mobility consultants’ advice helps align your mobility programs with global business strategy.
Permanent Establishment
If an employee works out of a different jurisdiction then where the employer is based, it can create a permanent establishment (PE) for the employer in the employee's country of residence / where the employment activities take place.
This can trigger non-employment tax implications, e.g. corporate tax, VAT etc. The particular implications will need to be assessed on a case-by-case basis based on the legislation of the local jurisdiction. In the situation where a PE is recognized, typically employer obligations (e.g. a payroll obligation for wage/income tax purposes) in that country are triggered. It is therefore highly recommended to have any PE risk assessed upfront, before allowing employees to perform their employment activities in a different jurisdiction.
Equity Compensation
Equity-based compensation has become an important, and often sizeable, part of employee compensation packages. As companies focus more on “pay-for-performance,” equity-based compensation offers employers the ability to align employee performance directly to company performance.
Equity compensation can come in various forms. The differing qualifications given to these awards and the complexity with how they operate can cause confusion for employees and have important (fiscal) implications for employers. Careful planning is therefore essential.
It’s important for employers and employees to understand the different kinds of commonly granted equity-based compensation, as not all types receive the same tax treatment. Whether (or when) equity-based compensation results in taxable compensation to the recipient and whether the company gets a tax deduction are all dependent on the type of equity-based compensation that has been awarded.
Executive Remuneration, including management participation
Advice on long-term remuneration plans, management/private equity participation schemes, severance payments and other board-related remuneration issues.
Employment & Labor Law
When it comes to remote work, several key labour law considerations must be carefully addressed by both employers and employees to ensure legal compliance. Dentons can provide personalized, proactive employment law assistance during all different stages of employment (start to finish) and can assist with employment and benefits related litigation, corporate and governmental investigations, executive compensation and counselling projects.
With Dentons' global presence and contacts, the company is one of only a few firms that can provide multinational businesses with a coordinated solution to all their employment and benefits needs throughout the world. The team is known for their creative, business-savvy counselling skills and, when necessary, their results-driven, highly successful litigation practice.
Immigration
Ever-changing, and complex procedures can hinder your business immigration initiatives. In this fluctuating environment, you need a business partner who can see past the paperwork and quickly make sense of new rules and regulations as they evolve, while moving your immigration efforts forward.
Stabilize your immigration strategies with lawyers at Dentons. Our immigration team is well versed in all areas of immigration services, meeting your needs through every step of the process. And when the rules do change, you know when Dentons knows about the latest developments and the potential impact on your business.
Dentons can work with you to structure your immigration strategy, submit applications for skilled, highly skilled and temporary workers, and help you relocate workers and recruit globally.