Civil & Administrative

#2016-1073Decree No. 2016-1073 on Electronic Pay Slips and Records for State Employees, Judges, and Military Personnel

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This decree transitions pay slips for state employees, judges, and military personnel to a fully electronic format. It requires the digital availability of these documents in a secure personal online space, ensuring data security and accessibility throughout an individual's career and beyond retirement. Paper-based copies are exceptions and given under specific circumstances. This move impacts how public institutions manage employee payroll documentation and requires affected individuals to adapt to digital systems.

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Key Changes

  • Mandatory digital pay slips for certain state personnel
  • Secure online spaces for accessing pay documents
  • Paper copies provided only in specific cases

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Provide pay slips (bulletin de paye), military pay statements (bulletin de solde), and annual income statements in electronic format to all state civil employees, judges, and military personnel

Direction générale des finances publiques and all state ministries/institutions
operational
high

Create and administer a secure digital personal space for each employee that guarantees data security, integrity, confidentiality, and accessibility of pay documents

Direction générale des finances publiques
operational
high

Retain electronic pay documents throughout an employee's career and for five full years following pension rights liquidation; if a pensioner resumes state employment, retain new pay documents for five years then delete them

Direction générale des finances publiques and all state ministries/institutions
operational
medium

Send electronic notification to employees informing them of document availability in their secure digital space, provided they have supplied a valid email address

Direction générale des finances publiques
disclosure
high

Each ministry must issue an arrêté (ministerial order) by January 1, 2020 at the latest specifying the implementation date and procedures for electronic pay slips, and the date when paper pay slips cease to be issued

All ministerial departments
reporting

Affected Parties

State employeesJudges+1 more…

Tags

electronic records,public administration,payroll management