In government, the mood is one of administrative simplification. This cause, generally well received among the population, inspired a bill, presented this Wednesday, April 24 to the Council of Ministers. The day before, Bruno Le Maire developed on France 2 what is intended to be a key measure of the text, namely the simplification of the pay slip.
A favorite of almost all successive governments for twenty years, this reform would aim to reduce the pay slip from 55 lines currently to ” fifteen “detailed the Minister of the Economy on X, specifying that “all information will remain available upon request by the employee”. This new pay slip should come into force by 2027.
The government plans to collect the multitude of information contained in the current sheet into three large groups, visible on the standard bulletin presented by the tenant of Bercy. One will include employee and employer social contributions, another the remuneration elements; the last will correspond to advances and deductions. Some information in the current bulletin will be condensed, others will remain as is.
Condensed information
Compared to the pay slip as it currently exists, certain data will therefore be condensed for greater clarity. Thus the contributions block, which will avoid the detail of employee and employer social contributions, today broken down into around ten lines: social security, unemployment insurance, retirement, CSG to name a few.
They will merge tomorrow into just two lines, one entitled “employer social contributions and contributions”, and the other “employee social contributions and contributions”, each corresponding to an amount. No more difference will be made between compulsory and optional contributions, as is currently the case.
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In addition to this block of contributions, the block of advances and deductions will also be the result of condensation. A single line will succeed the four currently in force (transport costs, meal vouchers, holiday vouchers and others).
The detail will disappear in favor of the “advances and deductions” line with a single amount. However, this detail is essential because it can explain variations in remuneration from one month to the next.
Information maintained
On the other hand, the set corresponding to the remuneration elements will not undergo any visual planing. The employee will always find details of salary, paid leave, overtime and benefits/bonuses on their file. This block, currently entitled “Remuneration elements”, will be called “Employee gross remuneration”. Good news, as this information is generally the most scrutinized by workers.
The aim of this administrative micro-revolution is firstly to spare business leaders, in particular the bosses of VSE-SMEswhich the minister noted that they pass “on average eight hours per week” nose in paperwork. But this revision will necessarily induce additional costs for these small bosses, the software for editing pay slips not being free.
The approach praised by Bruno Le Maire also aims to make it easier for employees, who are supposed to understand the broad outlines of their remuneration at a glance. But the visual condensation of social security contributions does not delight workers. “It makes absolutely no savings and it obscures social security contributions for the employee”points one of them to X (Twitter).
If the hidden information will of course be accessible upon request from the employee, some point out the risk of the opposite of the desired effect occurring. “So, simplifying means forcing the employee to take steps to access the transparency of their pay slip which the minister strives to make opaque”jokes Christian Delporte, history professor and specialist in political communication, on
