Course : Payroll and social security contributions, the basics

draw up pay slips

Practical course - 3d - 21h00 - Ref. PAI
Price : 1870 € E.T.

Payroll and social security contributions, the basics

draw up pay slips


Required course

Payroll management is one of the most important and highly regulated aspects of human resources management. In this course, you will learn about compulsory and optional information, the legal form and essential knowledge of labor law for drawing up pay slips, calculating working hours and absences, social security contributions, issuing final pay slips, and issuing certificates and attestations of departure.


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Practical course in person or remote class
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Ref. PAI
  3d - 21h00
1870 € E.T.




Payroll management is one of the most important and highly regulated aspects of human resources management. In this course, you will learn about compulsory and optional information, the legal form and essential knowledge of labor law for drawing up pay slips, calculating working hours and absences, social security contributions, issuing final pay slips, and issuing certificates and attestations of departure.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Distinguish between remuneration elements to calculate salaries
Preparing pay slips based on working hours and absences
Determining social security contributions and their impact on payroll
Calculate severance pay and final settlement.

Intended audience
Members of "payroll" departments, SME accountants, business managers wishing to produce or supervise pay slips.

Prerequisites
No special knowledge required.

Practical details
Hands-on work
Application exercises and real-life case studies to get participants up and running. Production of simple full-time and part-time payrolls.

Course schedule

1
The pay slip: presentation

  • Know the form and structure of the pay slip: gross salary, social security and tax contributions, net tax, social security, payable.
  • Understand the legal basis of the pay slip.
  • Distinguish between mandatory, prohibited and optional information.
  • Identify the employer's obligations: payment methods, etc.
Hands-on work
Determine gross salary, taxable salary and net salary.

2
The different elements of remuneration

  • Apply hiring formalities: DPAE, pension and complementary fund declarations.
  • Know the legal and conventional working hours: number of hours per week or month, according to agreements, the 35 h.
  • Understand how wages are set: the number of hours worked per month and the basic wage, the SMIC.
  • Evaluate additional salaries: bonuses (monthly, periodic or annual), gratuities, bonuses.
Hands-on work
Determine gross salary, taxable salary and net salary. Calculate a basic salary.

3
Working hours and pay slips

  • Managing overtime (quota: limits on authorized overtime and premium pay).
  • Discern whether or not hours worked are counted as working time: skills assessment, on-call duty at home.
  • Apply the prorated salary system for employees joining or leaving during the month.
  • Apply equivalent compensatory rest periods.
  • Understand the use and payment of overtime.
  • Know the rules governing night hours.
Hands-on work
Calculation of overtime and compensatory rest. Off-duty training allowance.

4
Recording absences

  • Distinguish between the different rules governing paid leave entitlements.
  • Apply vacation pay (according to the two calculation models: salary maintenance and tenths).
  • Account for absence valuation based on the value of the calendar, working or working day.
  • Calculate lost wages due to sickness, maternity and workplace accidents.
  • Know how to calculate the daily compensation paid by social security.
  • Identify the subrogation mechanism.
  • Understanding the net income guarantee set by collective bargaining agreements.
Hands-on work
Determine remuneration for an employee absent due to illness, calculation of daily allowance, paid leave, deductions for absence.

5
Social security contributions

  • Know the collecting bodies and their specific features: URSSAF, AGIRC and ARRCO supplementary pension organizations.
  • Determining contribution bases: the social security ceiling, contribution bands.
  • Understanding the proratization of the social security ceiling: part-time employees, entries and exits.
  • Differentiate between social security contributions and their rates: CSG, CRDS, forfait social.
  • Distinguish between rules and specificities to be applied to executives.
  • Calculate exemptions from social security contributions on low-wage earners: the Fillon law and its conditions of application.
Hands-on work
Identify social security contributions on a payslip.

6
Last pay and final settlement

  • Distinguish between different types of contract termination (redundancy, resignation, end of fixed-term contract, retirement).
  • Distinguish between entitlement to compensation and the calculation of severance pay itself.
  • Understand the rules governing the calculation of legal severance pay: seniority to be taken into account...
  • Calculate compensation due: vacation pay, redundancy pay, end of fixed-term contract pay, retirement pay.
  • Know the cases of exemption from end-of-contract indemnity: seasonal contracts, "customary", training contracts, tutoring contracts.
  • Provide departure documents: work certificate, final pay receipt, Pôle Emploi certificate.

7
Drawing up a payslip

  • Build a payroll in Excel.
Hands-on work
Produce your first pay slips using a standard Excel matrix.


Customer reviews
4,2 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
PAULINE C.
03/12/25
5 / 5

Dense content for 3 days of training, even with a basic knowledge of the field.
CAROLINE Y.
03/12/25
4 / 5

very dense content aimed at audiences already trained in the subject.
LYNA L.
03/12/25
4 / 5

The content was very interesting and well-presented: there was a desire to provide an exhaustive overview of payroll concepts in order to be able to draw up a payroll. We were able to go into the details and subtleties of certain subjects. Over 3 days, the content was very dense and the pace was brisk. However, I don't think it's accurate to say that the course doesn't require any pre-requisites: I think you need to have had some grounding in payroll to avoid being overwhelmed by the technicalit



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