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During certain events, the Social and Economic Committee or the employer directly, may give employees gifts, vouchers or gift vouchers. This allocation is optional, no collective agreement or employment contract can make it mandatory. The total amount over the year must not exceed <\/span>\u20ac196 for 2025 and \u20ac200 for 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n Three types of benefits can be offered to employees:<\/p>\n \n \n 2. For which employees?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The allocation of gifts must respect the principle of equal treatment<\/strong> between the company’s employees. Thus, the allocation of the gift must in no way be discriminatory. This benefit must therefore be attributed to all members of the company indiscriminately and must not be used as a sanction.<\/p>\n Please note: seniority is considered a discriminatory criterion.<\/span><\/p>\n The following may benefit from it:<\/p>\n \n \n \n 3. How much is exempt?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The amount of the benefit is exempt from social security contributions up to a limit of 5% of the monthly social security ceiling, i.e. \u20ac196 for 2025 and \u20ac200 for 2026 <\/span>during the same calendar year and per employee.<\/p>\n It is then quite possible to give several gifts per year and to each employee of the company.<\/p>\n \n 4. Beyond this limit, can the amount be exempted?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Beyond the limit, gifts and\/or vouchers are also exempt provided that the following 3 cumulative conditions are met:<\/p>\n The list of events concerned is exhaustive<\/strong>: marriage, civil partnership, birth, adoption, retirement, Mother’s Day\/Father’s Day, St Catherine\/St Nicholas, Christmas for children up to 16 years old and employees, start of the school year for children under 26 years old.<\/p>\n Its purpose must be related to the event, it must mention either the nature of the goods, or one or more departments of the store, or the name of one or more stores. And it cannot be exchanged for fuel or food products, unless they are of a festive nature.<\/p>\n This condition is presumed to be met if the amount of benefits granted to the employee for an event does not exceed the threshold of 5%<\/strong> of the monthly social security ceiling per calendar year.<\/p>\n The vouchers can therefore be combined<\/strong>, per event, if they meet the threshold of 5% of the monthly ceiling.<\/p>\n NB: the 5% threshold is adapted for certain events (Christmas and back to school). <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n If these three conditions are not met simultaneously, the voucher and\/or gift is subject to social security contributions for its total amount.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 5. No exemption<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The tolerance relating to the exemption does not apply to vouchers or gifts awarded by the employer when there is a Social and Economic Committee in companies with more than 50 employees.<\/p>\n In addition, it is the non-discriminatory<\/strong> nature of the contribution exemption that is a condition for granting the exemption from contributions.<\/p>\n 6. Example\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The CSE allocates vouchers to employees at the time of their wedding, the birth of a child and the start of the school year.<\/p>\n Thus, during the year, the employee receives the following vouchers:<\/p>\n Thus, in total, the employee will benefit from vouchers for the amount of 220 euros during the calendar year.<\/p>\n This amount is therefore higher than the threshold of 5% of the monthly social security ceiling for 2025 (196 euros). On the other hand, each voucher respects the threshold for each event. Thus, vouchers are exempt from social security contributions. It is therefore necessary to assess whether the conditions for exemption are met for each allocation of vouchers.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ***<\/p>\n This fact sheet contains summary information. Please contact us for advice tailored to your situation. We cannot be held responsible for misinterpretation.<\/em><\/p>\n Please contact us for advice tailored to your situation. We cannot be held responsible for any misinterpretation of this sheet.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/em><\/p>\n Contact<\/span><\/p>\n Claire APPELGHEM<\/span><\/p>\n HR Director\/Head of Employment Law<\/em><\/p>\n Claire.appelghem@groupe-aplitec.com<\/p>\n 01 40 40 38 38<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.groupe-aplitec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Gifts-and-vouchers-for-employee-MAJ-2025.pdf” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”T\u00e9l\u00e9charger la note” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Preamble During certain events, the Social and Economic Committee or the employer directly, may give employees gifts, vouchers or gift vouchers. This allocation is optional, no collective agreement or employment contract can make it mandatory. The total amount over the year must not exceed \u20ac196 for 2025 and \u20ac200 for 2026. 1.What type of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-resources","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n1.What type of gift?<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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