at a glance
Hiring contractors in India can be a rollercoaster
Hiring independent contractors in India can be daunting if you aren’t familiar with the local labor laws, including the Contract Labor Act. Misclassifying workers can result in penalties from the Income Tax Department, and Indian courts may require you to retroactively provide benefits like Employees Provident Fund and Employee State Insurance contributions. You should try to pay contractors in India in Indian Rupees (INR) and ensure they have the necessary information to file their Income Tax Return. Rippling streamlines the process so you can grow your global team quickly and compliantly.
Worry-free Compliance
Avoid misclassifying contractors in India
Rippling can help you avoid costly misclassification mistakes. Worried that your Indian contractors are misclassified? Try our free classification assessment to find out.
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Support your Indian contractors right out of the box with Rippling
Simplified Onboarding
Onboard contractors in India in 90 seconds
Rippling makes it easy to onboard Indian 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 to employees
As your business grows, your workforce needs change. You can easily transition a contractor to an employee in minutes while preserving any historical data via Rippling EOR or your own entity. Through the transition, you'll retain historical documents and payroll data, and the contractor can retain their email and systems access.
APP & IT MANAGEMENT
Set up and manage your Indian 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 Indian contractors in INR
Easily pay contractors in your currency or INR. 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.
Looking to hire employees
in India instead?
Check out our hiring guide in India.
Hire employees in India
