Ending a nanny or cleaner contract in France: the 13 documents, who writes which, and what CESU still does for you

The home-employment page on AdminLanding starts with a free calculator: start date, regime (employee at the family's home or assistant maternel), salary, date of the letter. It returns the notice, the dates in jours ouvrables, the indemnity and the list of end-of-contract documents. The calculator is a rule engine applying the articles quoted below; the same inputs always give the same output.

The record can then be saved as a shared calendar. The party who creates it invites the other; both see the same dates (meeting, notification window, notice end, 6-month settlement window), receive the same reminders by email, and each side sees when the other opened the record (an acknowledgement line, not a signature). The 13 documents are generated from that record: names and addresses come from each party's own profile, the notice and indemnity figures from the calculation, so an employer-generated letter and an employee-generated sheet print the same numbers.

The documents are in French, the language required for their use with URSSAF, France Travail and a conseil de prud'hommes; an English companion can be added as an optional separate file for reading.

The employer's three letters and the employee's four letters are private to their author: the employee's screen shows the employer's letters greyed out with the mention that they are the employer's documents, and vice versa. The five shared documents (the two co-signed agreements, the handover receipt and the two information sheets) are visible to both.

A letter is delivered either by registered post with acknowledgement of receipt or handed over against a signed receipt; the CCN accepts both forms (art. 64-1), and the notice runs from the first presentation or the handover date, never from the sending date. The handover receipt in the table exists for the second case.

1. Invitation to the preliminary meeting. The employer states date, time and place; the meeting takes place from the 4th jour ouvrable counted from the day after the letter is presented. Jours ouvrables are Monday to Saturday excluding public holidays; the calendar counts them.
2. Termination letter. Sent between the 4th and the 30th jour ouvrable after the meeting. It prints the category of reason from the closed list of the CCN (personal reasons of the household, move, financial situation, entry into an establishment, inaptitude, faute grave, faute lourde) and the facts as the employer writes them; nothing on the platform assesses the reason. The notice from art. 162.4.1 (1 week under 6 months of seniority, 1 month from 6 months to under 2 years, 2 months from 2 years) and the indemnity from art. 163.1 (from 8 months of seniority, assessed at the notification date: 1/4 of a month of the average gross salary per year up to 10 years, 1/3 beyond, on the better of the last 12 or last 3 months) are printed from the record.
3. Notice waiver at the employer's initiative, if the employer prefers the notice not to be worked: the contract still ends on the notice end date and the notice pay remains due.
4. Pregnancy and maternity. CCN art. 48-1-2-1 attaches to these periods the protection of the Code du travail (art. L.1225-4): a dismissal notified during a medically attested pregnancy, the maternity leave or the ten weeks after it is null, except for a faute grave unrelated to the pregnancy or an impossibility to keep the contract for a reason unrelated to it.
5. After the last declaration, the employer produces the four URSSAF documents from the CESU or Pajemploi account (next section). The URSSAF end-of-contract sheet lists them for the stored regime, with who produces each one, who receives it and through which channel.

For an assistant maternel at her own home, the end of contract at the parents' initiative is the retrait d'enfant (art. 119.1), with a notice of 8 days under 3 months of care, 15 days from 3 months to under 1 year, 1 month from 1 year (art. 120) and, from 9 months of care, an indemnity of 1/80 of the gross salaries paid (art. 121.1). The employer-side article, ending a nanny's or cleaner's contract in France, goes through the procedure article by article.

• Resignation letter. The notice of art. 162.6 is 1 week under 6 months of seniority, 2 weeks from 6 months to under 2 years, 1 month from 2 years; it runs from the first presentation of the letter or its handover.
• Request to waive the notice for a new job. After a minimum worked portion (1 week when the notice is 1 month or less, 2 weeks when it is 2 months), both parties are released from the rest of the notice and its pay.
• Notice waiver agreement at your request (art. 64-2). When you ask to leave before the end of the notice and the employer agrees, the agreement is co-signed: the contract ends on the last worked day and no notice pay is due for the waived part. The CCN reads the absence of such an agreement differently: without it, the employer may claim the net pay of the notice not worked.
• End of the trial period. Written by whichever party ends it; 1 month, renewable once (art. 131-1); no notice and no reason (art. 44-1-3).
• Request for the end-of-contract documents, naming each document with its article, when one is missing after the contract end.
• Reservations on the settlement receipt, within 6 months of signing it (C. trav. art. L.1234-20), listing each contested line next to the figure the CCN rules give. The settlement arithmetic check is the information sheet behind that letter: the amount on the receipt next to the CCN amount for the indemnity, the notice pay and the paid-leave indemnity, identical whichever party generates it.

The employee-side article, your rights when a household contract ends, covers the same rules from the employee's chair, including unemployment rights.

Four documents are not among the 13, on purpose. They are produced by the employer from the cesu.urssaf.fr or pajemploi.urssaf.fr account after the last declaration (by the 5th of the following month), in the fin de contrat section, and they carry the URSSAF data that no third-party template can reproduce:

• Certificat de travail (C. trav. art. L.1234-19): the dates of the contract and the nature of the job.
• Attestation employeur for France Travail (art. R.1234-9): transmitted to France Travail; the basis of the employee's unemployment rights.
• Reçu pour solde de tout compte (art. L.1234-20): the list of sums paid at the end, in two copies.
• Last payslip, including the compensatory paid-leave indemnity (art. L.3141-28) and, where due, the notice and dismissal indemnities.

These four are the documents the Code du travail names; the CCN 3239 reaches household employment through the closed list of art. L.7221-2, which is why the dismissal procedure comes from the agreement (Code du travail numérique, CCN 3239) while the end-of-contract documents come from the Code. AdminLanding's documents sit around them: the request letter when one is missing, the arithmetic check and the reservations letter when a figure differs, the URSSAF sheet that says who produces what.

Avenant n° 10 of 05/02/2026 to the CCN 3239 revised the minimum wages of annex 5 (assistants maternels) and annex 6 (home employees); it was extended by the arrêté of 04/05/2026, published in the JO of 08/05/2026, and applies since 01/06/2026. For an assistant maternel the minimum hourly wage per child is 4,20 € gross without the AM-GE title and 4,37 € with it. The indemnities on the last payslip are computed on the actual contractual salary, which cannot be below the minimum of the employee's level.

The calculator, the shared calendar, the invitation and the reminders are free. The 13 documents are on the Home Employment pack at 29 €, bought once by the employer for one end of contract: it covers both parties, so the linked employee generates the employee-side letters at no cost. An employee whose employer has no pack has a 9 € employee pack limited to the employee-side and shared documents. The Full Starter bundle at 89 € opens every AdminLanding pack (rental, cross-border, patrimoine, courrier and home employment). Electronic signature of the two co-signed agreements is optional, at 1,50 € per signer, with credits shared across all documents on the account. The details are on the pricing page; the French version of the calculator is at fin-de-contrat-emploi-a-domicile.

The same calculator and the same document generators are also exposed as an MCP connector, so an assistant such as Claude or Mistral Le Chat can call them: 10 tools without an account (including the home-employment end-of-contract calculation), 32 with an account (including the 13 documents from the shared record). They are deterministic tools, the same rule engine and the same templates as the web page; the assistant chooses which tool to call and reads back the exact result. Our guide to the AdminLanding connector explains the set-up.