Employer of Record in China (EOR)

MSA's employer of record (EOR) solution streamlines your company's expansion into China, eliminating the need to establish a legal entity. By leveraging this solution, you can efficiently and compliantly onboard employees, ensuring a smooth and supported process that allows you to focus on your core business objectives.

Our China EOR service acts as a legal employer, assuming employment responsibilities on your company’s behalf. Engaging with MSA’s EOR service in China allows your company to hire and manage staff compliantly without establishing a local legal entity. Our EOR solution navigates the complexities of Chinese labor law to mitigate compliance risks and streamline your expansion into the Chinese market.

Benefits of our China EOR Service

Quick Market Entry

Simplified hiring process without setting up a local entity. We can quickly hire your employees by sidestepping the process of creating a legal entity.

Creation of Employment Contracts

Crafting compliant contracts aligning with Chinese labor law.

Payroll and Tax adminstration

Payroll and tax administration adhering to local tax laws and regulations.

Work Visas & Permits

Obtention of work visa and permits for foreign workers.

Management of Employee Benefits

Handling employee benefits and compensation packages.

Conversion from EOR to Legal Entity

We assist companies to transition from EOR to a Local Entity.

Understanding MSA’s Employer of Record Service

Compliance with Chinese labor law is non-negotiable when hiring in China. MSA’s EOR service ensures that your employment practices abide by local labor laws, which cover aspects such as maximum working hours, minimum wage requirements, and mandatory benefits. Partnering with MSA means transferring legal liabilities related to employment to our EOR service as the legal employer of your staff in China. MSA assumes responsibility for legal compliance of employment contracts.

When selecting MSA as your EOR provider, consider the following:

Employment liability

MSA assumes liability for employment to the extent specified in our service agreement.

Expertise in local Chinese employment regulations

Our knowledge can be pivotal to your success. MSA’s due diligence is critical to ensuring a compliant EOR partnership.

Operational aspects

MSA’s Employer of Record (EOR) streamline your expansion by handling the complexities of hiring and payroll. We ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations, allowing you to focus on your business operations.

Recruitment and Onboarding Processes

MSA’s EOR services benefit your recruitment in China. We manage the complexities of sourcing and hiring local talent while ensuring compliance with employment contracts and HR policies. The onboarding process is designed to integrate new employees efficiently into your team and includes managing the probationary period. MSA can source, interview, and select candidates.

Compliance

MSA generates contracts that adhere to Chinese labor laws.

Onboarding

MSA streamlines the onboarding process for new hires.

Payroll, Taxes, and Benefits Administration

Working with MSA’s EOR service in China ensures timely and accurate payroll processing. Taxes and social insurance contributions are meticulously handled, reducing your administrative burden. You can confidently provide statutory benefits, knowing that your operations fully comply with Chinese regulations.

Payroll

MSA calculates and distributes monthly wages.

Tax Administration

MSA withholds and pays the correct tax amounts.

Benefits Management

MSA enrolls employees in health and social insurance programs.

Managing Contracts and Employment Termination

When the time comes to terminate an employment contract, MSA’s EOR service advises on and manages severance terms and any legal requirements. This includes respecting the terms of the contract and local HR practices to ensure a smooth transition for both you and the departing employee.

Contract Management

MSA oversees employment terms during the lifecycle of employment.

Termination Handling

MSA guides legalities and processes for ending employment.

Conclusion

By leveraging MSA’s China Employer of Record services, you outsource administrative tasks and reduce legal exposure, allowing you to focus on strategic growth. This includes everything from hiring in China to managing independent contractors and full-time employees.

Testimonials

MSA has been our trusted advisor throughout the entire lifecycle of our China journey, enabling us to dispatch employees (EOR) to China while having no legal entity and the incorporation and operationalization of our Chinese subsidiary. After this, MSA continues to prove its value as an advisor in supporting not only Chinese accounting, taxation, and compliance requirements but also by advising on specific licensing requirements within the horticulture industry in China, such as those for trading in pesticides and other chemicals. With a profound understanding of our headquarters’ interests and a thorough understanding of local business practices in China, MSA has enabled us to balance the often-conflicting requirements for control and compliance with our ambitious China growth strategy.

Royal Brinkman

Vincent Van Der Wilk
Area Manager Asia & Africa at Royal Brinkman

For our fast-growing business, we need a reliable partner to handle all our payroll-related matters, which we found in MSA. They helped us streamline our internal processes by implementing and improving compliance processes from a legal perspective and in terms of our corporate policies. We fully trust in the confidentiality of our employees’ data, as they ensure secure data storage from internationally recognized providers. Whether on ad-hoc requests or long-term oriented recurring matters, we always receive a fast and complete response to our questions that help us achieve our compliance goals and overcome the challenges in payroll, IIT, and social security in China.

Genuine German

Damian Maib
Founder

MSA was our first choice when we were looking for a China-based accounting firm with a fundamental understanding of our Belgian background and the ability to connect two diverging business cultures. As our company operates with the corporate ERP system Oracle, we are delighted that MSA works through proprietary access directly in our system, ensuring the availability of our company figures in the format we are accustomed to. During our company’s setup procedure, they managed to organize particular steps without the personal presence of the company representatives (e.g., opening a bank account) by identifying alternative verification procedures. We appreciate that MSA always listens to our queries. They are very well connected both within China and internationally. In addition to our questions about our China business, we are glad to receive advice on questions about other international topics from their connections within their global network.

Hybrid Software

Joachim Van Hemelen
Chief Financial Officer

MSA has been an exceptional business partner for our company, whom have a thorough understanding of our internal processes and our ERP system. As a result, and combined with their expertise in finance and taxation, they have been able to support Feinmetall by training our finance- and administrative staff to ensure quality standards and compliance throughout all areas. Because of their availability on short notice, we can rely on MSA’s support at a moment’s notice if required. We further rely on MSA to follow our monthly business on site in China in terms of accounting, taxation, and general compliance. Ensuring full compliance with local regulations and transparency for our management team in Germany is essential and MSA is our trusted partner helping us achieve this.

Feinmetall

Patrik Dinser
Commercial Director

From day one of our collaboration, I have found the team at MSA perfect for our needs. As a UK based business with notable activities in the Far East, we are looking for clear, constructive and accurate advice along with of course day to day financial/fiscal support. This is exactly what we get, and this provides enormous reassurance over the numbers and furthermore excellent support as we grow our business in the Far East. A true partner to our business in every sense of the word.

Badgequo Ltd.

Matt Goldstein
Finance Director

MSA has been our trusted service provider since the establishment of our operations in China. With a profound understanding of Chinese compliance requirements and the ability to translate these requirements in an international context, MSA has enabled us to achieve an exceptional level of transparency and an understanding of the Chinese financial and administrative regulations. After the expansion of our operations in China we continue to rely on the expertise of MSA in relation to taxation matters. MSA continues to reserve dedicated staff members, with a thorough understanding of our operations, whom are ready to support our local finance team in a heartbeat should the need arise.

Lotus Bakeries NV

LOTUS BAKERIES CHINA

MSA is our advisor of choice for complex tax and financial advisory with respect to our China operations. MSA’s team of experts has supported us with extensive advice on various topics such as international transactions, tax implications and business structure optimization. We trust on the company’s knowledge and experience to make well-informed decisions that are key to our company’s success in China. Most notably, MSA’s solid advice and practical support has enabled us to successfully optimize our internal business structure, which included among others comprehensive advice on the optimal business structure for CIBES’ operations in China and subsequent support from MSA with the implementation of the new structure (incl. establishment of 40 branches across Mainland China).

Cibes Lift Group AB

Manuel Neuhofer
Director of Finance and Administration for ASIA & MENA CIBES Lift Group

GET STARTED WITH MSA. TODAY.

Setup, manage and grow your business with MSA's expert services.

Receive expert tips and business insights

By subscribing, I accept MSA Privacy Policy.