Hiring contractors in Japan can be a rollercoaster
Hiring Japanese contractors can be a challenge, as Japanese employment laws don’t clearly differentiate between contractors and employees. However, you still have to classify independent contractors correctly to avoid stiff fines, write employment contracts in Japanese, and pay your contractors in Japanese yen (JPY). Rippling can help you remain compliant with Japanese labor laws, while quickly expanding your global team.
Avoid misclassifying contractors in Japan
Rippling can help you avoid costly misclassification mistakes. Worried that your Japanese contractors are misclassified? Try our free classification assessment to find out.
Simplified onboarding
Rippling makes it easy to onboard Japanese 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
As your business grows, your workforce is likely to 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 Through the transition, you'll retain historical documents and payroll data, and the contractor can retain their email and systems access.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
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 contractors in your currency or JPY. 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.
Check out our hiring guide in Japan