Hire contractors in Colombia
Hiring contractors in Colombia? Rippling can help you onboard and pay Colombian contractors in a single system. In just a few clicks, you can localize onboarding, provision IT and app access, and run payroll for your contractors in Colombia—while staying compliant with local laws.
Avg Time to Hiring
Less than 5 minutes
Currency
COP
Time Zone
GMT-5 (Bogotá)
at a glance
Hiring contractors in Colombia can be a rollercoaster
Hiring Colombian contractors can be complex if you don't know Colombian labor laws. It’s essential to classify them correctly, as the Colombian Pension and Social Securities Unit (Unidad De Gestión Pensional y Parafiscal or UGPP) is known for aggressively investigating foreign businesses it suspects of misclassifying employees to skirt taxes. And unlike in many other countries, you may need to provide Colombian contractors with benefits—it all depends on their contract. But with Rippling, you can grow your global team quickly and compliantly.
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Worry-free Compliance
Avoid misclassifying contractors in Colombia
Rippling can help you avoid costly misclassification mistakes. Worried that your Colombian contractors are misclassified? Try our free classification assessment to find out.
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Support your Colombian contractors right out of the box with Rippling
Simplified Onboarding
Onboard contractors in Colombia in 90 seconds
Rippling makes it easy to onboard Colombian 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.
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 Colombian 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 Colombian contractors in COP
Easily pay contractors in your currency or COP. And if you need to pay someone off-cycle for a late invoice? You can do that in minutes. 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.