Towards a simplified pay slip – Les Echos

Are we moving towards the end of the extension cord payslips? This is certainly a first step that will be crossed on Monday with the presentation of a report to the Government on simplifying it. France is champion of the complexity in this matter. On average, our payslips not contain less than 40 lines, where most European countries stick to a fortnight.

Where does this specificity? From an accounting culture that led, as developed in the “that all pay elements should appear on the ballot, so that each recipient can retrieve the data are of interest, aggregating information over time scheduling being done without. “ CSG, CRDS, FNAL uncapped, AGFF, Fongecif … Everything is precisely documented on the pay slip for those who can navigate. But how are the employees who watch each month in detail the range of all employee and employer contributions that are on the ballot?

To clarify this document, while keeping his information function and income statement, the mission conducted by the HRD Solvay, Jean-Christophe Sciberras, first worked on a combination of lines of risk covered by contributions (health, pension, unemployment risk ), regardless of the legal regime of protection available (basic, compulsory supplementary, optional).

Clarify a pedagogy concern

Another line of simplification together on a single line the employer contributions that do not correspond to direct rights for the employee, the type of training, individual training leave, training, construction effort, transport or financing of employers’ organizations.

Meanwhile, the report, in a clarification sake of simplicity that offers show on the ballot the amount of total compensation ( + total gross pay employer contributions) for the sake of pedagogy. Finally, this new form would also include the amount of relief funded by the state, the “super gross” somehow breaks with Fillon, decreases load of responsibility pact, but without showing the tax credit competitiveness employment (Cice), considered a tax provision.

In terms of timing, companies that wish can experience this simplification in January 2016. The report then recommends making it compulsory to From January 2017 to over 300 more employees, and all others one year later, in January 2018.

Substantial savings

The report also suggests that the clarification process be conducted in front with that of dematerialization, another point behind in France. The digitization rate reaches 15% in France, against 95% in Germany, 73% in the UK and 57% in Italy. However, the expected savings are substantial: in the order of 10-32 cents per payslip, they could reach 20-42 cents, taking into account the end of postage for newsletters mailed