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Payroll Calculations
The German Minijob: Why It Exists and How Payroll Handles It

The Minijob is one of the most distinctly German things in payroll. It is a job deliberately kept small enough that, for the worker, gross pay and take-home pay are almost the same number. No income tax, no social-security deductions from the employee’s side...

Niko Nurmentaus

Niko Nurmentaus

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HR & Labor Law
Are Your Platform Workers Actually Employees? Portugal's Article 12-A and the 2025 Supreme Court Wave

Picture a food-courier or a ride-hailing driver in Lisbon. They signed up through an app, they are labeled a self-employed provider, they invoice for their work, and everyone involved has treated...

Niko Nurmentaus

Niko Nurmentaus

Product Lead

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Compliance
Equal Pay in Mexico Moves From Principle to Obligation: The 2024–2026 Gender-Pay Reforms

For decades, Mexican labor law contained a line that almost everyone agreed with and almost no one was audited on: equal work deserves equal pay. Article 86 of the Ley Federal del Trabajo said it...

Greg Miaskiewicz

Greg Miaskiewicz

CEO & Co-Founder

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Payroll Calculations
Mexico's Payroll Tax Is Rising, One State at a Time: The 2025–2026 ISN Increases

A company with a warehouse in one Mexican state, a sales office in another, and stores in a third pays the Impuesto Sobre Nóminas, the state payroll tax, separately in each one, at whatever rate that...

Niko Nurmentaus

Niko Nurmentaus

Product Lead

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Payroll Calculations
Mexico's 2026 Employment Subsidy: A Small Credit With Three Ways to Get It Wrong

The subsidio para el empleo is one of the smallest numbers on a Mexican payslip and one of the easiest to compute incorrectly. It is a federal credit that reduces the income tax (ISR) withheld from...

Mehmood Deshmukh

Mehmood Deshmukh

CTO & Co-Founder

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