The tracks to simplify the payroll of French – Le Figaro

For institutional and cultural reasons, the French pay slip beats complexity of records. Here the proposals submitted to the government in a report that will be presented on Monday, and which AFP obtained a copy.

A French payslip can be up to 50 lines and remains a mystery to most employees: the mission entrusted by the government on the floor of a more readable form including offers group them by theme contributions: health, retirement, unemployment. The report of the mission led by Jean-Christophe Sciberras, HRD France Solvay, which will be presented Monday to the government and which AFP obtained a copy, says that this is to “clarify” the payslip and not to reform the pay rules, a project that “remains to drive”

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Committed for over a year in simplifying the lives of companies, the government had initially announced a simplified pay slip for 2016. The deadline was extended. The mission has three stages: an experiment with voluntary business in 2016, an implementation in companies with more than 300 employees in 2017, and then generalizing from 1 January 2018

Today. to “institutional and cultural reasons”, the French pay slip “claps complexities of records.” A comparison carried out within subsidiaries of a large group is clear: 40 lines on the French Bulletin, 15 in Germany, 14 in the US and 11 in China. Consequently, “the peripheral information eventually drown the essential” and many employees are content to watch the net amount recorded at the bottom of page.

• First, to better understand “what is the money, “the mission suggests establishing” a repository of payroll labeled “and consolidate risk assessments and levies for health, retirement, unemployment. For example, under the title “health insurance” would be listed both Social Security, complementary and disability.

• It proposes maintaining two columns (by the employee and by the employer) and also mention the total amount of salary (gross salary + employer contributions). She also suggested to include the reductions funded.

• Another topic discussed, the dematerialization of payslips, possible today with the employee’s consent, but not widespread (from around 15%, against 95% in Germany and 73% in Britain). A dematerialized form costs 10 cents, against 20 for a paper ballot and 42 if prepaid. However, the introduction of electronic safes to ensure data retention also weigh on business costs.

The report does not quantify the cost of the implementation of the new sheet model payday. However, it sees a source of savings in the removal of the requirement to report separately the payment of profit sharing and participation to include this information in the newsletter.