Angola, one of Africa's largest economies, offers vast opportunities for businesses, driven by abundant natural resources like oil, diamonds, and minerals. The government is diversifying the economy, promoting agriculture, manufacturing, renewable energy, and technology, creating a thriving market for expansion.
With a young, skilled workforce in engineering, logistics, and construction, Angola is a strategic hub for Southern Africa’s trade, offering access to regional markets. Its commitment to sustainability, including investments in solar, hydroelectric, and wind power, attracts energy and infrastructure innovators.
Navigating Angola’s regulatory landscape is easier with an Employer of Record (EOR), ensuring compliance with labor laws and taxes, allowing businesses to focus on growth and success.
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An Employer of Record (EOR) is an international employment agency that legally employs workers on behalf of a client company.
They are responsible for overseeing employment compliance for businesses operating in a country without a registered local body. An EOR can assist with several tasks, including:
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Ideal for companies without an in-country entity or local HR support in Angola, our Employer of Record (EOR) services cover payroll management, including gross-to-net calculation, expat visa handling, and acccess to Airswift-provided employee benefits.
For companies with an entity in Angola but no local HR support, we offer comprehensive solutions, including gross-to-net pay calculations, payroll reconciliations, expense and tax management, compliance reporting, tax equalisations, allowance handling, PTO tracking, employee query resolution, and HRIS management.
Our global immigration services offer complete support for employees in Angola. This includes business visa assistance, advisory, work permit and authorisation, application handling, and sponsorship, ensuring seamless international employee mobility.
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Employment and compliance challenges are multiplied when your costs escalate from managing multiple suppliers or recruiting HR specialists.
There is a high cost associated with opening an entity in-country. It often makes more sense to leverage another company’s footprint to ease financial burdens.
Hiring an Employer of Record in Angola enables you to work with a single entity while removing the need to maintain an expensive in-house team.
An Employer of Record organisation can provide one contact for all inquiries.
This increases efficiency and ensures issues are dealt with quickly while reducing the need to engage multiple stakeholders, freeing up time to focus on your core business functions.
Airswift has been a key partner in supporting Angola's Angolanisation policy, successfully placing over 100 national contractors and securing 2,000+ work permits for expatriates from 40 countries. With a local office in Luanda and support from teams in Manchester and Houston, Airswift ensures seamless contractor support.
As the exclusive recruitment and employment partner for Chevron's Angola LNG project in Soyo, Airswift established a local entity to deliver compliant solutions. The team, drawn from Angola, the USA, Portugal, and the UK, supplied 679 expatriate technical and 100+ non-technical contractors throughout the project phases, including FEED, construction, commissioning, and production.
Airswift managed payroll and assignments for over 25,000 contractors on rotational and residential bases, solidifying its reputation as the sole manpower supplier for Angola LNG’s first five years. This partnership enhanced operational efficiency and contributed significantly to local workforce development, cementing Airswift's leadership in workforce solutions in Angola.
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Airswift partnered with an international offshore engineering firm to support a strategic subsea project in Angola. The client needed a recruitment and employment partner with a strong local network to source specialists and provide services like visa logistics and compliant payroll.
As the exclusive manpower provider, Airswift utilised its Luanda-based team to mobilise 10 skilled contractors for key roles, including ROV Lead, ROV Supervisor, Offshore Supervisor, and Project Manager. All personnel met the client’s strict subsea experience and compliance requirements.
Airswift's seamless execution and high service quality have initiated discussions for future projects, solidifying its reputation as a trusted workforce solutions partner in Angola's offshore sector.
Few issues are as critical to project delivery as the identification, on-boarding and management of productive workforces. Our highly experienced team behind our talent acquisition services work directly with clients to identify their hiring needs.
Airswift understands that attracting and retaining high performing leadership teams is the key to success. These are critical hires who can influence a business to achieve financial, strategic, and commercial goals. Our executive search firm, Ducatus Partners, is led by a seasoned team of industry specialists focused on sourcing C-suite leaders.
From recruiting and mobilising entire multi discipline teams, to integrating a technology focused approach and supply-chain management, our support teams take on as much of our clients’ workforce organisation burden as possible.
Airswift has experience navigating the challenges of global expansion, managing international HR, tax and payroll challenges, finding niche and specialist talent, and restructuring and transforming organisations.
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