Home care (personal services): recruitment of an employee

Verified 12 December 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister), Ministry of Economy

As a individual employer, you can hire yourself an employee or address you to a representative body for him to in your place the steps hiring. An organization provider can also put its clean staff at your disposal: in this case, you are just the customer of a provider of services. We're doing an update on the regulations.

The conditions of recruitment are different if the employee is employed directly or if the employer has appeal to one body.

Direct employment

To perform at your home of personal service activities, you can hire directly an employee.

You become a individual employer and you need to respect the formalities of the following hiring dates:

For carry out your efforts to simplified way, you can use the Declarative Cesu or the Cesu pre-financed (pay slipcalculation and declaration of social contributions, withholding tax).

Your steps and your interlocutors are different according to jobs busy.

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Childcare

Your need is for home child care.

You must use the services of the center Urssaf Service Pajemploi if you touch the free choice of custody complement :

Urssaf Service Pajemploi en ligne

Other jobs at home

Your needs are tasks at home.

These are, for example, tasks ofmaintenance of the house, minor work by tinkering, support schoolboy or course at home, aid and accompaniment the essential acts of life.

You must use the services of the center Urssaf service Cesu :

Join the Universal Service Employment Check (Uses)

Gardener as main activity

You want to employ an employee who has an activity gardener's principal. This activity is the responsibility of the agricultural sector.

During sound hiring, you must declare using a pre-employment declaration for agricultural worker:

Online Pre-Hiring Declaration for Agricultural Employees (DPAE-MSA)

Please note

When the employer hires an employee for the 1re time and is not yet registered with the Urssaf: titleContent or the MSA: titleContent, he shall apply for registration at the latest on 1er working day.

He registers the employee, after receipt of its registration number.

Through an organization

You can use to an organization representative or service provider to the person.

You are the employer of the employee at home when you go through an organization representative.

When you go through an organization provider, that body is the employer. It puts its own employees to your disposition.

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Mandatory body

You keep the employer status. It's you who control execution of the work of your employee and who pour the salary.

In this case, the representative personal services (for example, an association):

  • From recruitment (experience professional, ability and qualifications)
  • From the administrative management of employee (employment contract, pay slipcalculation and declaration of social contributions, withholding tax).

The representative body duty you inform of your main responsibilities as an employer (monitoring the performance of work, giving instructions, punishing, etc.)

He'll invoice this service.

There is a directory of personal services:

Search for a personal care organization

Service provider organization

The individual enters into a commercial contract with the organization service provider.

This body is the employer employees working at your home.

The service provider organization will invoice then the services performed by its own employees and takes care of all administrative formalities (employment contract, payment of salary, absence management, etc.).

There is a directory of personal services:

Search for a personal care organization

Who can help me?

Find who can answer your questions in your region

  • Urssaf service Cesu

    To find out if you are an individual employer using the Cesu or an employee declared with the Cesu device

    By telephone

    0 806 802 378 - (Free service + Variable call price depending on the telephone operator).

    Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm

    In Martinique and Guadeloupe: until 11am

    In French Guiana: until 12pm

    In Reunion: from 11am to 7pm

    From the foreigner: 00 33 806 802 378 (Toll free service + variable call price depending on the telephone operator).

    By email

    Access to contact form

    By mail

    Urssaf service Cesu

    63 de la Montat Street

    42 961 Saint-Étienne cedex 9