Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in living in EU?

Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in ... by Semaphor on Saturday September 24, 2022 @07:40AM (#32961591)

It is probably doubly illegal. Not just in the US, but also in the country you live in. I don’t know for sure outside Germany, but I assume it’s similar: If you mainly live in Germany, you have to be hired according to German labor law (and pay taxes etc. in Germany)

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in ... by krzyk on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:00AM (#32961708)

Same in Poland. But this doesn't stop a lot, and I mean a lot companies from doing that.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in ... by Semaphor on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:05AM (#32961739)

I once accidentally did it in South Africa (went on a 6 months vacation, kept working for the company in Germany) because I didn’t know, and my boss didn’t either :D

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in ... by distances on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:52AM (#32962080)

It is not illegal in Germany if you follow the usual rules for self-employment. Proper tax registration, multiple clients over a timespan, independent negotiation of the prices, independently deciding working hours/days, and so on.

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Re:Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in ... by tluyben2 on Saturday September 24, 2022 @08:32AM (#32961911)

Yeah, in NL and UK and probably others, you would need to have a company with multiple clients to be not seen as employee.

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