Worldwide Staff Relocations

Employee relocation includes a range of internal business processes to transfer employees, their families, and/or entire departments of a business to a new location. Such business processes can include domestic residential services where an employee moves within a country or state as well as international relocation services which include planning for diplomats, managers etc. working abroad. Staff relocation Ireland services can include the process of relocation including moving employee’s personal belongings and a car, arranging necessary documents (visa, long-term stay permissions), finding a new house, finding a school for children, and introduce expatriates to the local culture.

Comprise a list of what an employee will need to do personally, to make their move successful. The list below can be standardized and adjust to your needs and requirements.

• Provide a checklist of steps required to organize their visa and right to work in that country. This may involve applying to an embassy in good time, or completing employment sponsorship documentation and gaining relevant departmental signatures.
• Passports: Employee passports must be valid for time periods specific to the point of exit and the point of entry into their new locale. Sometimes these time limits can differ so it is worth their while to do the checking.
• Pet visas & passports: Destination countries always require a period of quarantine at customs points of arrival for pets. These times can vary, so make sure you provide your employees moving abroad with information about how to move the family pet.
• Removals: When moving abroad, it makes good sense to decide what items are going to be required in the new location. A reliable domestic removal van company is needed to transport goods to international freight ports for container transport. Domestic storage may be required, and you can provide a list of recommended local companies.
• Vaccinations: It doesn’t make any sense to move abroad without taking a personal health check-up and receiving the required vaccinations in good time. Make sure, if vaccinations are compulsory, the employees know this requirement.
• Accommodation: Often, before the move, temporary accommodation is required in the country of origin, and possibly after, in the country of destination. To make sure the employees you move abroad experience as little hassle as possible, have an itinerary and transfer transport arranged. This step is often missed out or left to the last minute, don’t make that mistake!
• Taxation: Usually it is the responsibility of the company to make sure employee details are correctly registered with local tax authorities. For example, if a Irish citizen works with an American Oil company in Saudi Arabia, they do not need to register with the Saudi tax authority, but are wise to continue paying their Irsih national insurance contributions (to keep a State Pension entitlement). American workers in the same oil company have to continue paying normal income tax in America. It is good practice to prepare a document with the correct tax advice (from the employee perspective), with directions for the best way to conduct themselves with tax authorities – both within their origin country, and destination environment.