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From DSN deadlines to 13th-month salary and annual leave balances, your complete year-end payroll checklist for employers managing French payroll.

France's 35-hour week, overtime rates, RTT days and forfait jours explained for foreign employers. Your legal obligations before hiring in France.

Step-by-step guide to mutual termination (rupture conventionnelle) in France: procedure, severance calculation, tax treatment, and impact on work permits.

What is RTT in France, who is entitled and how is it calculated? Everything foreign employers need to know about days off under the 35-hour working week.

France's right to disconnect applies to all employers, including foreign companies. What the law requires and what to include in your employment contracts.

Understand France's profit sharing rules: participation, intéressement and the obligation for companies with 11+ employees. For foreign employers.

Everything foreign employers need to know about the French probation period: legal durations by category, renewal rules, notice periods and pitfalls.

Everything you need to know about overtime in France: the 35-hour threshold, pay surcharges (25%/50%), annual caps, tax exemptions and employer obligations.

Hiring an apprentice in France? This employer guide covers the contrat d'apprentissage, financial support, OPCO registration and rules for hiring international students.

France's 13th month salary isn't mandatory by law, but it may be required under a CBA. Learn how it works, how it's calculated, and what foreign employers must know.

How does annual leave work in France? Learn the 2.5-day accrual rule, jours ouvrables vs ouvrés, public holidays 2026, split leave bonuses and RTT differences.

Following a recent ruling by the French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation), in line with European law, employees who fall ill whilst on holiday can now recover the days they have lost.

If you are expanding your business into France or already managing a local team, offering a health plan (“mutuelle”) is only part of your compliance and employee benefits responsibilities.

Hiring in France means more than offering a salary. It means integrating into one of the world’s most structured social protection systems, including healthcare, which is both robust and highly regulated.

Every day, over 4 million employees in France use their meal vouchers (titres-restaurant) to pay for lunch. Yet, many companies and employees are unaware of the exact rules governing their eligibility and use.

Miss your sick leave extension deadline by just one day? You'll lose compensation entirely. Plus new mandatory secure forms in July. French employees and HR managers need to know these game-changing rules now.

Company cars, known as "avantages en nature" in France, can be a real headache for both employers and employees. How is their value calculated? And what impact do they have on your net salary and social security contributions?

I am sure you were convinced that France will compensate well when someone is on sick leave...

Last week, we saw what a sick leave was… it was just the beginning! Ready to go a step further? Let’s see how sick leave is compensated in France.

Dealing with a sick leave is a perfect example of the French vision of the work relation between an employee and a company.

It sounds like a 7-year-old kid complaining! 😭 In fact, it is not. These are the excuses used by Getir and Flink, as reported in a newspaper, when they tried to explain why they are leaving the French market.

🌍 You can make billions 💰 and still make new (easy...) discoveries every day! Google & Amazon recently found out that they cannot fire their employees in Europe like they do in America. What a shame!! 😉

"Prévoyance" ? And in English? Euh….”Life insurance”? If a private medical scheme is something easy to imagine, we enter into a specific French dark zone when it comes to "prévoyance."

"Mutuelle" and "Frais de santé" are terms you might have heard before but aren't sure what they refer to. A rare French-English speaker might mention "private medical scheme." But what is that?

Imagine for a few seconds a classic situation: Your company has to work around the clock! Not only during the day, but also at night and weekends. In fact, you need a few teams to cover 24/7...

CLA or CBA. 2 acronyms that will have a huge impact on your development in France. What are we talking about ? CLA/CBA = Collective Labour Agreement or Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Welcome to the employment law jungle! France is probably number one when it comes to creating rules. At least we are good at something!

The obsession with good food in France does not stop when you’re at work. One big part of adapting to living here is taking lunch with fellow employees.

🚘 Men and their cars... Crazy to see how people can still care a lot about such a benefit.

Why are the labour costs so high in France? Come and join the french community! You will quickly understand where these contribution rates come from when we talk about Cost Sharing.

Are you ready to spend your money? People employed in France are an investment!

As a very cool business, you are open to recruiting people based in France even if you don’t have any direct activity and entity in the country.

“Work wherever you want”, the illusion of a world without boundaries and constraints.

Expanding its business in France is like opening a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get!

CIPD. Four letters that meant nothing to me when I arrived in the UK from France.

A few weeks ago I expressed my surprise to see the French market becoming the 1st destination for foreign investment in Europe.

Is it really a surprise? Was it expected to see France becoming No. 1 destination for foreign investment in Europe?