Registration

WHO IS CONSIDERED AN EMPLOYEE AND AN EMPLOYER

For National Insurance purposes, an employee is any person who performs services under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer.

An employer is any person or corporate body with whom an employee has entered into a contract of service or apprenticeship, expressly or implied, whereby such a person or cooperate body is liable to pay salaries, wages or other remuneration for services performed by the employee.

REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYEES & DOCUMENTS REQUIRED

Every employee between the ages of sixteen (16) and sixty (60) should be registered with the National Insurance office. Every person who becomes an employer shall also register with the N.I.S within one week of starting operations. Registration with the office requires proper identification, this maybe in the form of a passport or birth certificate. In the case where the current name may differ from birth names, an affidavit is required.
It is the employers’ duty to register his employees, however in the interest of self-preservation an employee should ensure that he/she is registered.