Hiring someone to look after your children at home — or entrusting them to an assistante maternelle — makes you an employer under the convention collective IDCC 3239. That convention, not the market, sets the floor: a minimum hourly rate, a formula that turns it into the same salary every month, and a set of allowances that are not salary at all. Here is what each piece costs, with the article it comes from, as it stands since 1 June 2026.
Read the articleEmploying someone at home in France comes down, month after month, to a single act: the declaration. Get the service right, the window right and the figures right, and the payslip, the contributions and the CAF payment all follow. Get any of the three wrong and you are chasing a missing complément or arguing about hours nobody wrote down. Here is how the month works — and where it usually goes wrong for a first-time employer.
A household contract in France ends on paper. Between the first registered letter and the last payslip, a nanny, cleaner or home carer and the family that employs them exchange a dozen written documents, each attached to an article of the collective agreement for household employers (CCN IDCC 3239), and four more come out of the CESU or Pajemploi account. This walkthrough lists the 13 documents now available on AdminLanding's home-employment page, states which party writes each one, when, and who receives it, and separates them from the URSSAF documents that the platform deliberately leaves to CESU and Pajemploi.
Updated 27/08/2026 — the 13 end-of-contract documents, the shared calendar and the 9 € employee pack are live on AdminLanding; the trial-period and notice-waiver rules were added. You look after a family's children, clean their home or care for a relative, and the contract is ending, whether the family is moving, the need has changed, or you are the one leaving. In France the family that declares you through CESU or Pajemploi is your employer in the full legal sense, and the end of the contract comes with a written procedure, a notice period, in most cases an indemnity, and four documents you are entitled to receive. The rules are in the collective agreement for household employment (IDCC 3239). Here is what they say, article by article, in both directions.
Updated 27/08/2026 — the 13 end-of-contract documents, the shared calendar and the packs are live on AdminLanding; the trial-period and notice-waiver rules were added. You are moving back, the children have started school, or the household budget has changed: the contract with your nanny, cleaner or home carer is coming to an end. In France, a household employer paying through CESU or Pajemploi is a real employer, and the end of the contract follows a written procedure with its own deadlines, notice periods and an indemnity. The rules come from the collective agreement for household employers (IDCC 3239), not from the general dismissal chapter of the Labour Code. Here is the sequence, article by article, and the documents both parties will hold at the end.
Version 1.1.0 of Rent — Lease & Short-Term (Rent — Bail & Courte Durée in French) is the biggest under-the-hood release the app has had: it moves to a new rendering engine that makes everything feel faster and smoother. Around that foundation, the August 2026 wave adds the features self-managing landlords asked for after 1.0.10: an e-signature queue you can actually trust (honest status chips, signed documents that leave the queue on their own), a tenant home-insurance reminder card that appears at each lease anniversary, an iPhone widget with the month's rents on your Home and Lock Screen, and a round of legal-accuracy fixes — including one that matters: the acte de cautionnement is no longer offered for e-signature, because French law (article 2297) requires the guarantor's handwritten mention on paper. Everything from 1.0.10 stays: free rent receipts on every account (up to 20 a month), property photos, the monthly wrap-up. And the pricing model hasn't moved — first property free, one-time packs, never a subscription.
Ask a chatbot whether Lyon is in a zone tendue, or what notice period applies to your tenant, and you will get a confident answer — which may be quietly wrong. French administrative rules change by decree, by quarter and by commune, faster than any AI model's training data. In 2026 there is a better way: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets your assistant call real, maintained legal calculators instead of guessing. Here is what that means in practice, what you can already do free of charge, and where the limits are.
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Julien Maurice is the founder of AdminLanding and writes the editorial guides on ExpatAdminHub covering European expat life, France-Switzerland cross-border work, and French administrative procedures. Contact: [email protected]