Global Payroll for France Business Processes

PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France supports the following business processes:

• Overtime.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to process overtime hours. The number of overtime hours is calculated outside of the payroll system and passed to PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France, which provides the functionality to calculate and pay the overtime. Specific elements are delivered to manage TEPA overtime hours.

• URSSAF Contributions.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to manage URSSAF contributions that are paid by both the payee and employer to cover retirement, sickness, workplace accidents, family benefits, widows' benefits, and FNAL. We deliver the rates for several URSSAF schemes (régimes), including the general scheme 100, Alsace-Moselle General Scheme 101, and other URSSAF schemes.

• ASSEDIC Contributions.

  ASSEDIC (or GARP in Paris) contributions are paid to the state unemployment fund, Pôle Emploi, which finances unemployment insurance (Régime d'Assurance Chomage or RAC) and salary guarantees (Fond National de Garantie des Salaires or FNGS). PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to enter and maintain ASSEDIC contribution rates, create regulatory reports, make payments to collector institutions, and create ASSEDIC certificates upon employee termination.

• ARRCO and AGIRC Contributions.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to manage ARRCO and AGIRC contributions for pension funds.

• Contingency Funds Contributions.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to manage contributions for contingency funds.

• Allowances.

  A payee may be entitled to a variety of allowances, paid in addition to the regular salary. PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to calculate and manage payment of allowances relating to contract termination, transportation allowances, benefits in kind, and meal and travel allowances.

• Absence Processing.

  PeopleSoft delivers predefined rules for processing absences due to vacation, illness, maternity, work accidents, and other reasons. We've designed these rules in accordance with French statutory requirements. You can easily modify many of these rules to reflect absence policies that are specific to your organization or to collective agreements that may be in force for your employees.

• Levies.

  Levies are deductions that don't fall into obvious categories, such as URSSAF, ASSEDIC, and retirement funds. Levies are paid to several organizations with different funding bases, different conditions, and on different dates. PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France manages levies for:

  • Professional training.

  • Transportation.

  • Participation of the Construction Effort levy.

  • Apprenticeships.

  • CSG and CRDS.

  • Levy on salaries.

  • Works councils.

• Garnishments.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to process garnishment deductions for alimony and various types of debt. Garnishments are taken every month, according to national guidelines.

• Loans and Advances.

  Employers who agree to pay salary advances or provide employee loans can use PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France to define and manage these loans and advances automatically.

• Net Guarantee.

  Employers may be required to pay a guaranteed percentage of a payee's gross salary during the time that the payee is on sick leave. PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France provides rules to manage the net guarantee calculation.

• Accruals.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France manages three accruals: the 2483 Annual Training report, the Employee Survey report, and paid vacation. For the 2483 Annual Training report, PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France provides a writable array to retrieve the required payroll indicators such as salary, training full time gross salary, and paid hours. For the Employee Survey report, PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France provides writable arrays to retrieve payroll and absence indicators such as salary, the number of working hours, the number of leaves of absence, and so on. PeopleSoft HR subsequently retrieves the values in the writable arrays to create the reports. In addition, PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France calculates two paid vacation accruals: the paid vacation accruals of the current accounting year and the accruals of the balance paid vacation of past accounting years.

• Specific Contracts.

  Specific contracts provide exemptions on contributions. Usually they are set up between an employer and a government department or between an employer and payee, subject to controls from the DDTE (regional government organization responsible for employment laws). PeopleSoft delivers rules for some common exemptions for fixed-term contracts, specific exempted contracts, and specific categories of payees.

• AFB Rules.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France provides specific elements for banking organizations that are members of the Association Française des Banques (AFB).

• Payslips.

  The PeopleSoft payslip functionality enables you to define the elements that you want to print on the payslip, such as earnings, deductions, absence hours, and current and year-to-date totals, as well as a daily record. With our payslip process, you can print payslips for all payees, or a group of payees.

• Banking.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France includes an optional banking process that enables you to create a bank transfer file with details of payments to be made to each payee.

• Terminations.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to identify and retrieve online any employees that have been terminated in a defined period. Using the terminations functionality, you can create an off-cycle group, associate the terminated employees with this group, and process the employees in an off-cycle calendar. Or you can process the terminated employees as part of a regular, on-cycle calendar. This transaction enables you to specify the payment method for terminated employees (for example, manual payment or EFT).

• DSN Generation.

  Using PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France you can extract DSN data from your database, review and update the extracted information, and create the DSN report based on DSN reporting norms.

• DUCS Generation.

  PeopleSoft provides the ability to create DUCS files for submitting social security contribution information to government agencies for URSSAF, ASSEDIC, and ARRCO/AGIRC contributions.

• DADS Generation.

  With PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France, you can extract DADS data from your database, review and update the extracted information, and create the DADS report conforming to the DADS-U norm.

• Wage Certificates.

  PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France enables you to generate wage certificates for your payees. These certificates provide proof that a payee is entitled to receive social security payments for sick leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, work accidents, or occupational illness.

• Retroactive Processing.

  Every customer must record retroactive updates that affect payroll. These retroactive updates can affect gross pay as well as deductions. PeopleSoft Global Payroll for France provides the following retroactivity functionality:

  • Retroactivity standard setup.

  • Support for retroactivity in reporting.

  • Calculation of inactive segments.

• DIF and Training Allocation.

  Global Payroll for France integrates with both the Administer Training business process and with Enterprise Learning Management to enable users to track DIF balances and compensate learners for DIF training and other training completed outside of the normal work schedule.