at a glance
Hiring contractors in Ireland can be a rollercoaster
Hiring Irish contractors can be daunting. You have to classify them correctly, comply with Ireland's Employment Equality Act, and make PRSI contributions for eligible contractors. Rippling makes it easy to onboard and offboard contractors, track their time and expenses, and manage their access to company systems. Rippling can help you grow your global team quickly and compliantly, so you can focus on what you do best: running your business.
Worry-free Compliance
Avoid misclassifying contractors in Ireland
Rippling can help you avoid costly misclassification mistakes. Worried that your Irish contractors are misclassified? Try our free classification assessment to find out.
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Support your Irish contractors right out of the box with Rippling
Simplified Onboarding
Onboard contractors in Ireland in 90 seconds
Rippling makes it easy to onboard Irish 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 Through the transition, you'll retain historical documents and payroll data, and the contractor can retain their email and systems access.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 Irish 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 Irish contractors in EUR
Easily pay contractors in your currency or EUR. 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 Ireland instead?
Check out our hiring guide in Ireland.
Hire employees in Ireland
