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Employee Savings Schemes

PERCO or excess retirement pension scheme (Article 83)… what is the best scheme for topping up your employees’ retirement pension?

How should the profit-sharing payments be made?

How can an effective profit-sharing agreement be implemented when a company has several business units?

What are the rules regarding the distribution of free shares to employees?

Employee savings schemes are a lever for optimizing salaries. ELSE provides assistance with the setting up of employee savings schemes and employee share ownership plans adapted to each company’s needs.

Profit-sharing: Auditing the structuring and optimization of group profit-sharing schemes, drafting and securing agreements (collective and fortuitous character), replying to observations made by the DIRECCTE, assisting in the event of any questioning of social contribution exemptions.

Savings schemes: PEE, PEI, PEG, PERCO, PERCOG, managing matching contributions…

Worktime savings scheme (Compte épargne temps – CET)

Employee and management share ownership: bonus shares, BSE, BSPCE, stock options

Other areas of expertise

Ancillary areas of expertise

URSSAF / Social Security

How to plan for an URSSAF inspection? What action needs to be taken on receiving notification of proceedings involving undeclared labour? In which cases is it appropriate to challenge an URSSAF ...

How to plan for an URSSAF inspection? What action needs to be taken on receiving notification of proceedings involving undeclared labour? In which cases is it appropriate to challenge an URSSAF inspection? Does the demand have to be immediately paid in full? [separation] ELSE is recognized for its expertise in URSSAF inspection assistance. Our lawyers’ technical competence, coupled with a great tenacity, ensures that companies’ chances of successfully challenging an URSSAF adjustment demand are maximized. Identifying risk areas (consultant / service provider contracts) Inspection assistance Employer support and representation before the Arbitration Committee and social security tribunals

Retirement and Pension

How should a unilateral decision regarding health costs be drafted? Are employees obliged to contribute to the scheme put in place by the employer? What exceptional cases does the company need to ...

How should a unilateral decision regarding health costs be drafted? Are employees obliged to contribute to the scheme put in place by the employer? What exceptional cases does the company need to anticipate? Can the cover per minimum health benefit basket be increased as part of an excess benefits scheme? [separation] Our teams provide complementary social protection solutions adapted to each company’s requirements. Putting in place a company private pension scheme or provident scheme (health, invalidity, incapacity, death) adapted to the company’s needs provides better protection for your staff and optimizes wage costs (exemption scheme). Setting up, modifying or cancelling complementary benefits schemes: excess retirement pension (e.g. Article 83), health cover, incapacity, death. Social protection scheme audit: checking of the collective nature and compulsory status, evaluation of URSSAF adjustment risk and remedial action.

Employment contracts and remuneration

How should a day-based remuneration agreement be worded to avoid any risk of subsequent litigation? In which cases should an invention clause be included? Should invention clauses include ...

How should a day-based remuneration agreement be worded to avoid any risk of subsequent litigation? In which cases should an invention clause be included? Should invention clauses include remuneration? What financial compensation should be envisaged in a restraint of trade clause? Does an employment contract have to include provisions on GDPR? [separation] ELSE assists companies with the issues encountered from the signing of the employment contract to its termination. Employment contract matrices Technical clauses: intellectual property, invention, restraint of trade, reimbursement of training costs, variable remuneration, objectives, telecommuting, personal data (GDPR)… Contract termination: assistance with decision-making and drawing-up documents, negotiating mutual consent agreements, evaluating severance payments and assessing industrial tribunal litigation risk. Company pay policy: drawing up policies relating to variable pay, commissions, fringe benefits and remunerating inventions.