Chapter I: Chèque emploi-service universel

The chèque emploi-service universel is an employment voucher or a special payment voucher. A.-The employment voucher enables : 1° To declare the employees mentioned in 3° ofarticle L. 133-5-6 of the Social Security Code; 2° To declare trainee au pair family helpers as mentioned in 6° of article L. 133-5-6 of the same code; 3° To declare the foster carers mentioned in article L. 441-1 of the Code de l’action…

For employees whose number of hours worked does not exceed a threshold set by decree, the remuneration shown on the universal service voucher includes an indemnity in lieu of paid holiday equal to one tenth of the gross remuneration. For the purposes of assessing the conditions for entitlement to social benefits, the actual time of employment indicated on the declaration is increased accordingly. The present paragraph also applies beyond the…

For jobs where the working time does not exceed three hours per week over a reference period of four weeks, the employer and the employee who use the universal service employment voucher are deemed to satisfy the obligations placed on either of them by articles L. 1242-12 and L. 1242-13, for a fixed-term employment contract, and L. 3123-6, for a part-time employment contract, or by articles L. 741-2 and L….

Another means of payment may be used to replace the special payment voucher, subject to the prohibitions on cash payments set out in articles L. 112-6 to L. 112-8 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.

Compulsory or optional social benefits in the form of benefits in kind intended to cover all or part of the cost of the services mentioned in B of article L. 1271-1 may be paid in the form of a special payment voucher.

Legal entities governed by public law may acquire special pre-funded payment vouchers, under the conditions set out in article L. 1271-12, at a price equal to their settlement value plus, where applicable, a commission.