Declare your employees
Verified 01 January 2026 - Entreprendre Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Are you an employer, company manager or personnel manager, and you have to declare your employees? We present you with the mandatory declarations, the deadlines to be respected, the organizations where to address and the steps to be accomplished.
An employer is subject to reporting requirements for the employees it employs.
These declarations must be made:
- During a hiring
- And at different deadlines (monthly, quarterly, annual).
These declarations are used to determine the rights of employees (pension, health insurance, etc.) and to calculate the contribution rates applicable to companies.
Declaration | Object | Employer concerned | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
Allows to declare to the Urssaf or the MSA the recruitment of an employee | Employer recruiting | Before each hiring (at the earliest 8 days before) | |
Job-service title company (Tese) (optional URSSAF scheme) | Allows you to declare a hiring in a simplified way, of an employee on a fixed-term contract, permanent contract or apprenticeship contract | Any company covered by the general social security scheme and not engaged in an agricultural activity | No later than the 5th of the month following the month of hiring. Then paycheck to be used each month during the employment contract |
Employment title agricultural service (Tesa) | Allows the hiring of an agricultural employee on a fixed-term contract for up to 3 months, whose gross remuneration does not exceed €12,015 | Agricultural employer whose workforce does not exceed 20 employees with a permanent contract and/or a fixed-term contract | When hiring or at the earliest 8 days before. Then paycheck to be used each month during the employment contract |
Job Title Fairgrounds (TEF) | Concerns unskilled casual employment at a carnival, non-sedentary fair or amusement park | Fair-trade employer with a maximum of 9 employees on 31 December of the previous year, and falling within the NAF (or APE) codes: 9321Z or 9329Z | When hiring. Then paycheck to be used each month during the employment contract |
Allows an association that employs an employee to pay salary and mandatory formalities | Association regardless of their size | When hiring. Then paycheck to be used each month during the employment contract | |
Allows you to hire a live performance employee, declare and pay social security contributions | Occasional live performance organizer not primarily engaged in the operation of venues | When hiring an artist or technician of the show |
Declaration | Object | Employer concerned | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
Allows you to declare salaries and pay contributions Includes the following statements: | Any employer | Monthly During the month following the period of paid employment: | |
Monthly Employer Attestation (MEA) | Allows to declare the work performance of an intermittent performer | Employer licensed as a performance contractor | Before the 15th of the month following the payment of the remuneration |
Is calculated on the remuneration paid during the year by application of a progressive scale | Employer not subject to VAT. Example: higher education institution | Periodicity (monthly, quarterly ) based on the amount paid in the previous year | |
Concerns the obligation to finance continuing training measures for company staff and jobseekers | Any employer | Monthly | |
Allows to finance the development of technological and professional training | Any employer | see payment schedule in Apprenticeship tax: how to pay the apprenticeship tax? |
Declaration | Object | Employer concerned | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
Allows to finance the development of technological and professional training | Any employer | see payment schedule in Apprenticeship tax: how to pay the apprenticeship tax? | |
Allows to finance the social protection of self-employed and non-agricultural workers (craftsmen, traders, etc.) | Company with a turnover of at least €19 million | By 15 May of each year | |
Allows reporting of direct investments in employee housing (1% housing) | Employer with at least 50 employees | Annual declaration in the NSD. Beginning of February of year N+1 or within 60 days of cessation of activity | |
Is calculated on the remuneration paid during the year by application of a progressive scale | Employer not subject to VAT. Example: higher education institution | Periodicity (annual ) determined according to the amount paid in the previous year |
Declaration | Object | Employer concerned | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
Sick leave of the employee | The employer draws up the employee's salary certificate as soon as possible via net-company .fr or by post by sending the "salary certificate for daily allowances" to the primary health insurance fund (CPAM) | Any employer | As soon as possible. Return to work must be reported in the registered company declaration (DSN) monthly. |
Declaration of work stoppage and request for reimbursement in bad weather (BTP weather leave) | In the event of work stoppage or partial unemployment due to bad weather, allows partial reimbursement of compensation paid to employees | Employer in the construction sector: public works, plumbing, roofing, civil engineering buildings, construction, demolition, etc. | In the month following the resumption of construction |
The employer makes the online declaration of the work-related or commuting accident on net-company which is transmitted to the primary health insurance fund (CPAM) | Employer in which one of the employees is the victim of an accident at work or during his commute | Within 48 hours (excluding Sundays and public holidays) |
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