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It's the cheque emploi system, where you employ people to do various small jobs around the house and garden, and pay them with a special cheque which debits your account with the obligatory social security charges. All banks operate the system - this is La Poste's version. The site actually gives a very good resumé of the sort of work that can be done under the system.
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[quote user="Will"]It's the cheque emploi system, where you employ people to do various small jobs around the house and garden, and pay them with a special cheque which debits your account with the obligatory social security charges. All banks operate the system - this is La Poste's version. The site actually gives a very good resumé of the sort of work that can be done under the system.[/quote]

Ohhhhh I thought it was somewhere were you could find people to do the jobs!

My teacher must have got it wrong and we only looked at getting the carte this evening and not really at the site.

I'm a little confused why would you want access to it 24/7 7/7? [8-)]

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You are right, it does go a stage further, that's where the La Poste version seems to differ from the other banks, as far as I know. It appears that if you subscribe via the card, you can then call a phone number and tell them what you need. Then within 48 hours you should be contacted by a worker on La Poste's list, with whom you agree the terms for the job.

There are two levels of service - the higher one (36€ per year) gives you as many worker contacts as you need, the lower one (15€) has an extra fee payable each time you use it after the first time. It seems that you can get a 50% refund of the cost of the card via your tax.

The workers on La Poste's list appear to be 'approved' - it's probably on the site somewhere but I didn't notice how one gets approved; if it's not too difficult it could be a good opening for those wanting to offer odd jobs in the home to earn some money.

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Thanks Will

I will have another look at it when I get time, but I understood form my teacher that the service is quite new and was for both employer and employee,

Obviously any one that has to be qualified to do a job will have to prove it eg. part-time electrician or plumber, then they could in theory not start up a micro but have taxes paid via the cheque d'employ method. Assuming you could get enough work through the scheme.

My interest would be for finding local people to carry out non-artisan jobs like gardening, ect.

 

 

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  • 5 months later...

Just found this service provided via Genius - it's a pre-paid package of either gardening, cleaning or small DIY jobs

http://www.genius-laposte.fr/index.php?page=packs&id_article=235

Also found this website where you can find approved providers who will accept CESU

http://www.servicesalapersonne.gouv.fr/repertoire-national-des-organismes-agrees-(1701).cml?

 

 

 

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