In order to make life easier for businesses, the government plans to simplify pay slips, but three lines could well be missing for employees…
In a tweet posted on Tuesday April 23, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire revealed his proposal for the new pay slips. However, this before and after leaves you wondering. Certain deleted lines could harm many employees…
As a reminder, this proposal for a simplified pay slip is part of the simplification bill which aims to reduce the complexity of procedures which put business leaders in difficulty. Among the avenues mentioned to achieve this, we include the simplification of the declaration of work stoppages, the reduction of the number of compulsory surveys to which companies are subject and the simplification of pay slips.
On this subject, Bruno Le Maire declared on X “we want to simplify the pay slip to improve its readability. My proposal is to go from more than 50 lines to around fifteen”. His tweet also presented an example of a pay slip before and after the application of the simplification.
Several things are changing. On the new simplified version, what the company spends on the employee and what the employee actually receives at the end of the month is clearly highlighted. This is largely thanks to a line made very visible, that of the “total employer cost”. It moved back to the first position whereas previously it was located at the end of the document.
Bonuses, overtime and paid leave are still detailed, but many lines are deleted. This may give the impression that the document is more easily visible, but it is not certain that this really makes it easier for employees to understand the amount paid. We can see deletions in the category “social contributions” which includes in particular the payment of mutual insurance, the contribution to the retirement fund and the CSG.
However, the most annoying thing for employees is undoubtedly the lack of detail regarding reimbursements. Thus, they will no longer be able to see on their pay slip whether their employer has contributed to the payment of their transport, whether they have received the right number of restaurant vouchers in relation to the number of days worked in the month or even view in one take a look at their holiday vouchers.
To be able to verify that no error has been made on these three elements, they will therefore have to request details of their salary from their company’s human resources department each month. Bruno Le Maire indicates that “all information will remain available upon request by the employee”.
Questioned about this problem, the Bercy press office was reserved, telling us that the simplified version posted online on quickly”. However, if the proposed document is validated as is, the simplification could ultimately complicate the lives of employees and human resources managers, and therefore companies.