Understanding Specific Contracts

Specific contracts confer exemptions from social contributions. They are usually set up between an employer and a government department or between an employer and payee, subject to controls from the DDTE. PeopleSoft delivers rules for common exemptions for professionalization contracts, apprentice contracts, trainee contracts, fixed-term contracts, other specific exempted contracts, and specific categories of payees.

Contracts affect areas of the payroll process in addition to the calculation of social contributions. For example, there may be unique earnings for payees with specific types of contracts, and payees with certain contracts may not be included in the employee headcount.

Note: Global Payroll for France delivers earnings for certain categories of payees. These earnings are described in subsequent sections of this topic.

Important! Sometimes the information needed to determine a contract employee's social contribution is not available from PeopleSoft HR. In these cases, the formula SIT FM assigns a default value. During the implementation of your system, you can create fields to manage the values not currently provided by PeopleSoft HR and you can create any needed elements (arrays, for example) to update the formula SIT FM.