I was wondering if anyone could give me some guidance on the procedure to follow if offering a 3 month internship to a colleague in our china office?
Any guidance would be really appreciated.
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Hi Stacy
So international HR can be a trick area, and I can only speak from when I was invovled with this a number of years ago. So basically we would put in place an ex pat assignment agreement, which is essentially a secondment. The home country would prepare this (so in this case China) as the employee would remain on their home ts and cs, and also be paid and taxed as normal through the home payroll. It was also common for additional allowances to be paid as part of the ex pat assignment, to cover aspects such as flights, accommodation and also the differential between the cost of living in the home and host country.
The host country i.e the UK in this example would be responsible for sorting the arrangements eg accommodation, transport (if required) of course this was all quite easy as we had an Ex Pat policy which was applied globally. You do need to however look into tax, pension and healthcare and such like as these can vary dependent on where the individual is coming from, my first action would be to try and identify someone in HR in the home country to start discussing the above.
I hope this helps.
Sarah