Barbados
Remote's Barbados employment guide will guide you through your compliance responsibilities. Note that Remote's employer of record services are not yet live in Barbados. but you can pay contractors with Remote now.
- Capital City
Bridgetown
- Currency
Barbadian dollar ($, BBD)
- Languages
English and Bajan Creole
- Population size
287,371
Employment termination
Termination process
Employee contracts can be terminated with written notice provided a reasonable justification is provided. Otherwise, an employee who is deemed by a labour tribunal to have been terminated unfairly might have to be reinstated.
Notice period
Employees should be informed of a termination anywhere from a week to ten weeks in advance — depending on their tenure, otherwise payment can be made in lieu of notice.
Severance pay
The Barbadian Severance Payments Act states that employees who’re laid off for reasons other than misconduct are entitled to severance benefits, provided they have been employed for at least 104 weeks.
In such circumstances, an employee would be owed two and half weeks’ wages for each year worked, for the first ten years of employment.
This rate increase to three weeks’ pay for the 11th to the 20th year of employment, and finally, three and half weeks’ pay for the next 13 years of employment, i.e., years 21 to 33 of an employee’s tenure.
Years 1 - 10: 2.5 weeks’ pay per year
Years 11 - 20: 3 weeks’ pay per year
Years 21 - 33: 3.5 weeks’ pay per year
Probation periods
There are no statutory probation periods and employees can generally be dismissed at will until after they’ve completed a year of service.