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Posting of workers in France: compulsory information documents
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All construction or public works workers must be informed of the working conditions in France by various information documents. Are included: general information and guidelines about the wages, working hours or health and safety.
These documents must be translated in a language the worker can understand. These documents are available in 11 languages on So Posting Worker: English, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Czech, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Polish and French.
These documents must be provided at the same time as the employee’s BTP card.
So Posting Worker is there to remind you of all the specific features regarding your posting of workers in France. In effect, employers posting workers in France must fill in a pre-posting declaration (SIPSI declaration) and appoint a legal representative who will be the link between your employees and the French authorities. Moreover, in the construction and public works sector, your employees must possess a BTP card.
As an employer established in a foreign country, you must transfer a SIPSI declaration to the Dreets of the place where you will provide the service
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Regardless of your field of activity, appointing a representative is compulsory. They will be the link between your company and the French authorities.
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The BTP card is a personal ID document enabling the French authorities to reduce fraud and fight against illegal work.
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No, SIPSI does not allow you to complete this formality because it is not necessary to make a declaration to the French Labor Inspectorate to post posted staff outside of France. On the other hand, we advise you to obtain information concerning the required procedures applicable in the host country, on the one hand (contact the competent authorities) and, on the other hand, from your Social Security agency for maintaining his affiliation with French Social Security (http://www.cleiss.fr/reglements/a1.html).
A frontier worker must not under any circumstance be confused with a posted worker. This means that the frontier worker is subject to the labor law set by the country in which the employment contract is performed. To be eligible for frontier worker status, the legal residence of the worker must, in principle, be located in a frontier zone, generally located less than 30 kilometers from the border.
Yes, absolutely.
If the posting takes place in connection with an operation for your own account, you should not leave the section empty, but complete it with your own details.
Yes. In case of a modification, we bill €12 per declaration. These costs are not included in the total amount of your initial order.
On the declaration, you need to check the “private individual” box.
No, in France, the posting declaration sent to the Labor Inspectorate only concerns salaried employees.
Sending a posting declaration or certificate via SIPSI is mandatory, whatever the sector, the nature or the duration of the posting. The SIPSI service has been the only means for sending the posting declaration or certificate since October 1, 2016 (January 1, 2017 for the transport sector). Declarations sent via email, mail or fax are not acceptable. The absence of a posting declaration makes you liable for high fines and exposes you to the risk of seeing your service suspended in case of control.
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