Rippling makes it easy to onboard Panamanian contractors. Send out contracts in minutes. In a single onboarding flow, contractors can sign agreements, submit required payroll and KYC information, and even set up their email account or apps—all in a few minutes from their phone.
At a glance
Hiring contractors in Panama can be a rollercoaster
Hiring contractors in Panama City, Colón, and elsewhere in Panama can be complicated without expert familiarity of the Central American city’s Labor Code, which distinguishes between freelancing and fixed-term employment. To lower your misclassification risk and hire in Panama with confidence, Rippling can help grow your global team quickly and compliantly.
Worry-free compliance
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Rippling can help you avoid costly misclassification mistakes. Worried that your Panamanian contractors are misclassified? Try our free classification assessment to find out.
Global workforce management
Support your Panamanian contractors right out of the box with Rippling
Simplified onboarding
Onboard contractors in Panama in 90 seconds
Global workforce management
Seamlessly transition contractors between countries
In the digital nomad era, give your contractors the flexibility to work from anywhere. With Rippling, you can easily transition a contractor from one country to another, without needing to terminate and re-hire them.
App & IT management
Set up and manage your Panamanian contractors’ IT needs
Give contractors access to apps like Google Workspace and Slack with a few clicks—and remove it just as easily at the end of their contracts. You can increase security by enforcing multi-factor authentication and even set up workflows to automatically alert you of any suspicious login activity.
Contractor compensation
Easily pay contractors in Panama
Process contractor payroll in minutes. Need to pay someone off-cycle for a late invoice? No worries. Contractor payments are tied to invoices and integrated time-tracking, saving you manual data entry in pay runs and creating a papertrail to protect against misclassification risk.
See Rippling in action
Increase savings, automate busywork and make better decisions by managing HR, IT and Finance in one place.