
Le Cheminant International Payroll Partner
SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa International Payroll & Global HR Services

Le Cheminant has its own company in South Africa which has been providing friendly and expert services since 2017.
The services offered are:
- Recruitment services
- Employment Contracts (usually free)
- Employment costing
- Expatriation advice and documentation
- Employee Handbooks
- Remuneration and Benefit Advice
- Social security advice and registration
- Termination advice
- Employment Services – Le Cheminant South Africa employs staff on behalf of clients:
- So there is no need for the client to set up a legal entity in South Africa
- We legally employ the staff paying social security (SASSA) and Skills Levy (SDL) any private pension, health insurance or other benefits required,
- And they are called Employees not consultants !
- Obviously a full payroll service backs up the employment with regular filings sent to the South Africa Revenue Service.
- We can also lease company cars for the employees if required by our clients.
- Gross /Net calculations
- Payment of employees, social charges and taxes, to SASSA and SARS.
- Social Security Administration
- Administration and payment of private health care providers, pension plans and other benefit providers. xxxxxx
- Payroll Journal, and General Ledger maintenance.
- Employee self service,
- Calculation and payment of taxes on cars and other BIK (Benefits in Kind) calculations,
- Employee share plan and options calculations
- Tax and social security quarterly and annual filings
Accounting and Company Secretarial support- a full administration service including
- bookkeeping,
- digital tax services,
- tax advice (individual and corporate)
- benefits consulting.
PEO Services
Fully functional HR outsourcing services
As a core competency Compandben South Africa provides a full human resource management support service to a wide range of local and international organizations. These services are referred to as PEO or Professional Employer Organization services.
In this service Compandben provides clients with the support of a full HR department, ensuring their staff are fully compliant in terms of labour law, employee taxation, social security, and all related employment legislation. This comprehensive HR service is inclusive of a compliant human resource foundation of payroll administration, workman’s compensation, unemployment insurance, contracts of employment, job descriptions, and where applicable, critical skills and general work permits. The service includes access to a quality retirement fund, medical, life and risk insurances. Staff employed on a PEO basis have voluntary access to these group employee benefits.
Typically, customers using our PEO services are:
- International organizations trading in South Africa, that require local in-country staffing support;
- NGO’s without a fully-fledged HR department;
- Organizations funded through government agencies as the Growth and Jobs Funds;
- larger corporations that require project or non-core related staffing support
- mid-size companies that wish to focus more on core activities and not be pulled into the administration of the business; and
- SMME and start-up enterprises that wish to ensure their HR responsibilities are properly structured and fully compliant – from the very beginning.
All in one employee self-service Program
We have a highly effective employee self-service program helping companies coordinate leave management with their staff members.
Staff can request leave categories, gain approval from line managers, and keep payroll and administration informed.
The system had a personalized log in facility and holds individual staff employment details as:
- Contract of Employment
- Leave Requests and Leave Management
- Onboarding Documents
- Employee Handbook
- Payslips
- Time sheet
- Payroll Queries
- Reports
The service is interactive, allowing staff members to send through and log payroll queries.
Employers’ social charge
South Africa Employers’ social charge burden is one of the lowest in the world. Employers pay just 5% of gross remuneration as mandatory social security costs, skills levy, and local insurance compared to …say …46% in France, 39% in Italy, and 68% in Brazil …