
India Notice Periods & Termination: A Foreign Employer's Guide
How notice periods and termination work in India for foreign employers — notice rules, final settlement, gratuity on exit, and compliant offboarding.
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How notice periods and termination work in India for foreign employers — notice rules, final settlement, gratuity on exit, and compliant offboarding.

How to make sure your company owns the code your India developers write — the IP assignment, confidentiality and trade-secret clauses that actually hold up.

What gratuity is, when it becomes payable (after 5 years of service), how it's calculated, and what foreign employers actually owe — explained simply.

The compliant ways to pay a developer in India from abroad — contractor, EOR or your own entity — and the tax, FX and risk trade-offs of each.

When the EOR fee is a big chunk of a low India salary, is it still worth it? The honest math on EOR vs contractor vs entity for junior and low-cost hires.

What RPO actually covers in India, when it beats in-house or contingency hiring, and how it pairs with EOR to find and employ your India team end to end.

PEO pricing in India in 2026: what you pay per employee, what's included, and how a PEO differs from an EOR in cost. SynkPay's flat $349/employee/month explained.

The total loaded cost of hiring a developer in India in 2026 — base CTC, employer PF, ESI, gratuity, EOR fee, recruitment, laptop. Worked at 3 seniority bands.

What "compliant" actually means when you hire in India — the four statutory regimes (PF, ESI, Gratuity, TDS), who's liable, and how the EOR model shifts that liability.

Compare EOR, PEO, and contract staffing in India across legal liability, compliance, IP, cost, and exit. A clear decision framework for foreign companies hiring.