Can the employer give free lunches to his employees? Yes, the employer can provide free meals to the employee (or pay the meal directly). In this case the meal is considered being worth the legal lump sum of €4.8 per meal (aka €9.6 per days for 2 meals). However, this lump sum per meal is … Read more
As of January 2018 social contributions rates changed. The employee CSG contribution increased from 7.5% to 9.2%. The Issurance for sickness, maternity, invalidity, death 0.75% employee contribution has been canceled. And the Unemployment employee contribution has been reduced from 4% to 0.95% Here are the new rates:
As always, with the news come a few changes. Here are the ones related to the payroll. Minimum wage increase Avery year the minimum hourly wage (SMIC in French) is updated. With the presidential election in 2017 we expected the government to increase the SMIC at a higher rate than the inflation. We were happily … Read more
