Salt People Desk
An Iraqi team, administered properly, without you building the function that administers it.
Local hiring, payroll and HR administration, without an HR department.
The business problem
Six Iraqi employees generate the same administrative surface area as sixty: files, contracts, renewals, leave, attendance, payroll inputs, contribution schedules, letters and reports.
Most foreign companies solve this by adding it to a country manager's evenings, which works until the country manager leaves and the records leave with them.
What is included
- Employee master files and personnel records
- Contract administration and renewal tracking
- Leave, attendance and timekeeping administration
- Monthly payroll: inputs, change log, gross-to-net, payslips and a bank file for your approval
- Payroll tax and social-security contribution documentation
- HR letters for banks, visas and employment confirmation
- Probation, confirmation and performance review administration
- A monthly HR report for head office
Optional modules
- Recruitment: sourcing, screening, testing, interviews in our Baghdad office and reference checks
- Background and qualification verification through licensed providers
- Manpower and contract staffing through licensed agencies
- Benefits and medical insurance administration
- Employee relocation and settling-in support
- Language, safety and anti-bribery training
- Virtual Branch Manager as the local point of contact
How the service is delivered
We take over the files as they are, tell you honestly what is missing, and bring them to a consistent standard.
Payroll runs on a fixed monthly cycle with a named deadline for your inputs and a named date for your approval.
Everything appears in one monthly HR report, so head office is not reconstructing the position from emails.
What you receive
- A complete personnel file per employee, kept current
- A monthly payroll pack you approve before anything is paid
- A renewal and expiry tracker with staged alerts
- A monthly HR report your head office can reconcile
Who it is suitable for
- Companies with two to fifty Iraqi employees
- Operations where HR is currently a side task
- Businesses that cannot see what Iraqi employment actually costs
- Anyone whose personnel records live in one person's inbox
How to request a proposal
Tell us headcount, whether you are hiring, and what your head office needs to see each month.
Where this touches legal work. Employment contracts, policies, discipline, termination, disputed entitlements, tax registration, social security registration and formal immigration applications sit with Salt & Associates, engaged separately. That applies whether the employees are on your payroll or on ours: where Salt Corporate Services acts as the employing entity, the structure and the contracts are settled with Salt & Associates before anyone is hired.
Common questions
Do you become the employer?
Yours by default — you select them, you employ them, you set their terms, and we run the files, the payroll cycle and the reporting behind them. Where you would rather we carried the employment, we can act as the employing entity for your account instead. Both routes are priced and scoped before you decide.
Who approves payroll?
You do, every month, before any bank file is acted on. We prepare and check; you approve and pay.
Can you take over records that are in poor shape?
Yes, and we will tell you plainly what is missing rather than presenting a tidy file that is not supported by documents.
Related products
Put the people administration on a cycle.
Headcount and what currently goes wrong. That is enough to scope it.
One Desk in Baghdad. Turnkey back-office infrastructure.
Salt Corporate Services runs all ten areas below — 33 services and 15 configured products, under one account lead, one request channel and one monthly report. Most clients start with one area and add the rest as the operation grows.