Work for company with no Irish presence

I can't find the answer to this, so apologies and please just direct me if this has already been covered.

I'm considering going for a job with a company that either has no Irish presence, or possibly even one with no eurozone or UK presence. I.e. I'm not sure how they'd pay me.

I'm presuming they might have to pay me gross and let me sort out my tax - but - I heard that if you're self-employed here, you lose all entitlement to social security should you become redundant. As I'm currently full-time permanent with an Irish company, I'd be loathe to give away any rights to the social security that I've been paying for. But I'm wondering about the ins and outs if I was to change to an ex-Europe company.

If you do lose social security if self-employed, then is there any way to set up some sort of basic company on the cheap and pay yourself as an employee? Or is this either illegal, doesn't solve the social security problem, or prohibitively expensive (or all 3)?

There has to be a way you can be paid by an international company and not lose social security rights, without them having to set up an office in Ireland.. isn't there? Is there?!

hmm, no-one come across this one or have any clues?

If I posted in the wrong thread/area, please just redirect me to the right place.. thanks

You don't lose 'all your social security' rights by going self-employed. You lose your entitled to 18 (?) months of job seekers benefit. You may lose some other entitlements to FAS/CE schemes. You retain rights to means-tested benefits such as job seekers assistance.

If you posted in the right forum and made the title of your thread more meaningful, then you would get a better response to your question.

Hi divot,

I work for a company with no presence here in Ireland. I work for a US company with additional offices in the UK. I transferred to Ireland, and my new employment contract is under Irish law. They employ KPMG to sort out payment, taxes etc and a benefits co-ordinator (for health, pensions etc). It is possible!

Hope that this helps.....

whether you are an employee or self-employed is a question of fact. It sounds as if you will be an employee, in which case the employer, regardless of where they are based, are obliged to operate PAYE and PRSI on your remuneration. They will probably get an payroll company to do that for them.