Leaving your job with a household employer: notice and documents
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When you leave a home employment job on your own initiative, the convention collective IDCC 3239 sets a resignation notice that differs from the dismissal notice (art. 162.6 versus 162.4.1), and art. 69 of the same convention lists the documents you receive at the end. This page states the rule for each step — notice, final pay, documents — as it applies to both parties.
The rules in one minute
- Resignation notice: 1 week below 6 months, 2 weeks from 6 months to less than 2 years, 1 month from 2 years, by seniority on the day the letter is sent — art. 162.6, 162.1.
- The notice starts at the first presentation of the letter or at its handover against signature — art. 162.6.
- Assistant maternel: 8 calendar days, 15 calendar days or 1 month by how long the child has been received, for either party — art. 120.
- At the end: final pay with the indemnité compensatrice de congés payés for leave not yet paid (CCN art. 67; none when the CESU hourly wage was raised by 10 % for paid leave, art. 140.1.2) and the end-of-contract documents of CCN art. 69 from the CESU or Pajemploi account.
The resignation notice (art. 162.6)
A salarié du particulier employeur — including a garde d'enfant à domicile — who ends the contract on their own initiative gives a notice whose duration depends on seniority under the same contract. The convention does not require a motif for a resignation. The table places the resignation scale next to the dismissal scale (art. 162.4.1), which applies when the employer ends the contract.
| Seniority (same contract) | Dismissal notice — art. 162.4.1 | Resignation notice — art. 162.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Less than 6 months | 1 week | 1 week |
| 6 months to less than 2 years | 1 month | 2 weeks |
| 2 years and more | 2 months | 1 month |
The seniority that sets the tier is counted on the day the letter is sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt (art. 162.1); the notice runs from the first presentation of the registered letter or from the handover (art. 162.4.1, 162.6). No notice after a faute grave or lourde, nor after a dismissal for unfitness (art. 161.1.3).
When the notice starts
Art. 162.6 sets the start at the first presentation of the resignation letter or at its handover against signature. A registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt or a hand delivery against a signed receipt gives both parties the same dated reference; the end of the notice is then counted from that date. During the notice, the contract continues under its usual terms: the hours are worked and paid as before.
What the final pay contains
The last pay is declared by the employer on CESU or Pajemploi at the latest the 5th of the month following the month worked, and the last payslip follows that declaration.
| Sum | Rule |
|---|---|
| Salary of the hours worked up to the end of the notice | Contract and CCN minimum wage (annexe 6, avenant n° 10 du 5 février 2026 applicable from 1 June 2026) |
| Indemnité compensatrice de congés payés for leave acquired and not yet paid — none when the CESU hourly wage was raised by 10 % for paid leave | CCN 3239 art. 67, 140.1.2 · C. trav. art. L.3141-28 |
| Indemnité de licenciement (art. 163.1) | Tied to a dismissal — not part of a resignation |
Another way to end the contract: the rupture conventionnelle (art. 161.3)
A home employee and the employer may end the contract by mutual agreement only by filling in the official form provided by the administration (CCN art. 161.3); the homologation request is made through the online service (C. trav. D.1237-3-1). The indemnity cannot be lower than the art. 163.1 indemnity. Each party has 15 calendar days to withdraw, counted from the day both parties sign that form (L.1237-13); the administration then has 15 jours ouvrables from the receipt of the request (L.1237-14), and a period that ends on a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday runs to the next jour ouvrable (R.1231-1). The contract ends at the earliest the day after homologation (L.1237-13). Not open to an assistant maternel (CASF art. L.423-2). The platform's document is a preparation sheet of that form — what the parties agreed, the minimum indemnity and the calendar counted from the form's signature. It is not the agreement, it is not signed and it cannot be signed electronically: the agreement is the official form.
Assistant maternel: ending the contract on your side (art. 120)
Under the socle spécifique « assistant maternel », the notice of art. 120 applies to either party and depends on how long the child has been received. It starts at the first presentation or handover of the letter. The art. 121.1 indemnité de rupture is attached to the retrait d'enfant by the parent (from 9 months of accueil); it is not part of a resignation. The conventional minimum hourly wage per child since 01/06/2026 is €4.20 gross without the AM-AP title and €4.37 with it (CCN 3239 annexe 5); the statutory floor of CASF art. D.423-9 applies when it is higher.
| Time the child has been received | Notice (either party) — art. 120 |
|---|---|
| Less than 3 months | 8 calendar days |
| 3 months to less than 1 year | 15 calendar days |
| 1 year and more | 1 month |
Art. 120: no notice during the trial period, after a faute grave or lourde, or when the withdrawal is imposed on the parties (approval suspended, changed or withdrawn — art. 119.3); nor after unfitness (art. 119.5). The time the child has been received is counted on the day the letter is sent or handed over; the notice runs from the first presentation of the registered letter or from the handover.
The documents you receive at the end
The same documents as for any end of contract (CCN art. 69, plus the last payslip), produced by the employer from the CESU or Pajemploi account. The employer-side detail of each is on the URSSAF end-of-contract documents page; the case where the employer ends the contract is on the page your rights when the contract ends.
| Document | Who produces it | Who receives it | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificat de travail (employment certificate) | The employer, from the CESU or Pajemploi account | The employee | CCN 3239 art. 69 |
| Reçu pour solde de tout compte (final settlement receipt) | The employer, listing the sums paid at the date the contract ends | The employee, who may sign it — once signed, it may be contested within the 6 months that follow the signature, for the sums it lists | CCN 3239 art. 69 |
| Attestation employeur France Travail | The employer, generated from the CESU or Pajemploi account | The employee, for the unemployment-benefit file | CCN 3239 art. 69 |
| Last payslip | Produced by CESU or Pajemploi once the last pay is declared — at the latest the 5th of the following month | The employee | CESU / Pajemploi declaration rules |
| Indemnité compensatrice de congés payés (untaken paid leave) | Paid by the employer with the final pay, for the leave not yet paid — none when the CESU hourly wage was raised by 10 % for paid leave | The employee | CCN 3239 art. 67, 140.1.2 · C. trav. art. L.3141-28 |
Quick answer
A home employee who resigns from a job with a particulier employeur gives the notice of CCN IDCC 3239 art. 162.6: 1 week below 6 months of seniority, 2 weeks from 6 months to less than 2 years, 1 month from 2 years — seniority on the day the letter is sent or handed over (art. 162.1) — starting at the first presentation or handover of the letter. An assistant maternel gives the notice of art. 120: 8 calendar days, 15 calendar days or 1 month by how long the child has been received. The final pay carries the indemnité compensatrice de congés payés (CCN art. 67); the employer declares it on CESU or Pajemploi by the 5th of the following month and generates the certificat de travail, the reçu pour solde de tout compte (contestable within 6 months of its signature) and the attestation France Travail (CCN art. 69), and the last payslip.
At the same moment, on the other side
While you send the resignation letter and work the art. 162.6 notice, the employer receives the letter — its first presentation dates the notice for both parties — keeps paying the hours worked, declares the last pay on CESU or Pajemploi by the 5th of the following month, and generates the end-of-contract documents. The employer-side pages state these steps from that side.
Frequently Asked Questions
Resignation notice, assistant maternel, final pay, documents, rupture conventionnelle.
Q.How long is the notice when I resign from a job with a particulier employeur?
Q.Is the resignation notice the same as the dismissal notice?
Q.I am an assistant maternel: what is my notice if I end the contract?
Q.Which sums and documents do I receive when I leave?
Q.I am leaving to retire: what applies?
Q.Can the contract end by rupture conventionnelle instead?
Q.Who pays for the documents?
Q.Can the employee use it alone?
Q.Is the motif of the termination letter evaluated?
Q.What about pregnancy or maternity?
Q.How does the trial period end?
The rest of the relationship
Before it ends, a relationship runs: what is paid, what the contract must carry, what is declared every month.
Sources
- Convention collective nationale des particuliers employeurs et de l'emploi à domicile (IDCC 3239) — consolidated text on Légifrance: socle commun, socle spécifique « salarié du particulier employeur » (art. 161 to 163) and socle spécifique « assistant maternel » (art. 119 to 121).
- Avenant n° 10 du 5 février 2026 — arrêté d'extension du 4 mai 2026 (JO n° 0108, 8 mai 2026) — minimum wages of annexes 5 (assistant maternel) and 6 (salarié du particulier employeur), applicable from 1 June 2026.
- code.travail.gouv.fr — Code du travail numérique (Ministère du Travail): contribution pages for IDCC 3239 and the Code du travail articles cited on this page (L.1221-25, L.1221-26, L.3141-28, L.1237-13, L.1237-14, D.1237-3-1, R.1231-1).
- cesu.urssaf.fr / pajemploi.urssaf.fr — URSSAF services through which the particulier employeur declares pay and produces the end-of-contract documents.
Rules verified on 29/09/2026 on Légifrance and code.travail.gouv.fr (CCN 3239 articles read: 44.1.3, 63.2.1, 64.1, 64.2, 64.3, 64.4, 69, 119.1, 119.3, 119.5, 120, 121.1, 131.1, 161.1.1.1, 161.1.3, 161.3, 162.1, 162.4.1, 162.6, 163.1, avenant n° 10 annexes 5/6). Page published 24/08/2026, last updated 29/09/2026.
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Which procedure applies: for a particulier employeur, the dismissal procedure of the convention collective IDCC 3239 applies instead of the Code du travail procedure (CCN art. 161.1.1: the rules are those of the convention; art. 161.1.1.1: entretien préalable from the 4th jour ouvrable counted from the day after the first presentation or the handover of the convocation, then notification by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt from the 4th to the 30th jour ouvrable counted from the day after the entretien; a period that would end on a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday runs to the next jour ouvrable). The Code du travail reaches this sector only through the closed list of art. L.7221-2, which does not include the L.1232-2 procedure. An assistant maternel is not dismissed: the employer withdraws the child by a letter sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt, with no preliminary interview (CCN art. 119.1).
Documents for both parties — the 19 documents of the membership
Each document is issued in French with an English companion page, from fixed CCN 3239 templates; the figures come from the shared record of the relationship, so the employer and the employee always read the same dates and amounts.
Written by the employer (5)
- Invitation to the preliminary meeting — home employee only — art. 161.1.1.1: object, date, time and place of the entretien; sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt.
- Termination letter — home employee only — sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, never handed over (art. 161.1.1.1); the motif category chosen from a closed list and the facts as you write them; notice and indemnity come from the shared record (art. 162.4.1, 163.1).
- Withdrawal of the child (assistant maternel) — assistant maternel only — art. 119.1: the employer's decision, sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt, with no preliminary interview and no motif to state; also the withdrawal imposed by a decision on the approval (art. 119.3) and the ending for unfitness (art. 119.5).
- Notice waiver (employer's initiative) — art. 64.2 — the notice the employer does not want worked is paid: the compensatory notice indemnity remains due.
- Retirement letter (mise à la retraite) — home employee only — art. 161.1.2: the employer's decision, with the employee's agreement below the age of automatic retirement, without it from that age; sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt; the notice of a dismissal (art. 162.5) and the indemnity of art. 163.2, whatever the seniority.
Written by the employee (5)
- Request to waive the notice (new job) — art. 162.4.1 — a home employee who finds a job during a dismissal notice stops once the minimum part is worked; both parties are released from the rest.
- Resignation letter — the notice of art. 162.6 (or art. 120) comes from the shared record; sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt (art. 63.2.1).
- Departure to retirement (written information) — art. 63.2.2 — from the legal age of entitlement to a pension, the employee informs the employer in writing; the notice (art. 162.5, or art. 120) comes from the shared record; the voluntary retirement indemnity of annex 4 (art. 163.3, 121.2: 120 months in the branch, 60 of them in the last 84) is paid by the insurer, not by the employer (annex 4, art. 4.2).
- Request for the end-of-contract documents — certificat de travail, attestation France Travail, reçu pour solde de tout compte (CCN art. 69), last payslip.
- Reservations on the settlement receipt — each contested line next to the CCN figure, computed on the server from the shared record — never typed; the receipt is contested by registered letter (C. trav. D.1234-8) within the 6 months that follow its signature (CCN art. 69).
Written by either party (1)
- End of the trial period — art. 44.1.3 — in writing, at any time during the trial, at the initiative of either party; never once the trial is over, never a renewal the text does not provide (art. 95.1 for an assistant maternel). For a home employee, art. 131.1 is extended subject to C. trav. L.1221-25 and L.1221-26, which set a délai de prévenance.
Naming both parties (8)
- Preparation of the rupture conventionnelle form — home employee only — a preparation sheet of the official form (art. 161.3): what the parties agreed, the minimum indemnity and the calendar counted from the form's signature. Not the agreement, not signed, not e-signable.
- Settlement arithmetic check — the CCN amount next to the amount on the receipt — the same figures on both sides.
- URSSAF end-of-contract sheet — who produces which document, who receives it, through which channel (CESU / Pajemploi).
- Handover receipt (décharge) — art. 64.1 — the dated receipt of a letter handed over instead of sent by registered post, where the text allows it (convocation, resignation, withdrawal of the child); the handover date starts the notice. A dismissal letter is never handed over (art. 161.1.1.1).
- Notice waiver agreement (employee's request) — art. 64.2 — the employee asks, the employer accepts; the contract ends on the last worked day. Co-signed, electronic signature optional.
- Employment contract — the written contract drawn up from the terms of the shared record (art. 41.1; one contract per child for an assistant maternel, art. 90.1). Co-signed, electronic signature optional.
- Monthly summary — the hours both parties confirmed for one month and the figures to type on CESU or Pajemploi. Not a payslip: the payslip is issued by the service.
- Contract amendment — one change of the terms, accepted by both parties (C. civ. art. 1193); a change the other party has not accepted is printed as a proposal. Co-signed, electronic signature optional.
One relationship, two accounts. Whoever saves the calculation first invites the other party by e-mail (free). Both then see the same calendar — entretien, notification, end of notice, documents hand-over, settlement window — receive the same reminders, and see when the other party last opened the record. These acknowledgements show the record was opened; they are not a legal notification — the registered letter, or the handover against a signed receipt, remains the formality.
Every date says who declared it, and when. The start date, the notification date and every later change carry the stamp “declared by [employer or employee] on [DD/MM/YYYY]”, visible to both parties. A date entered today is dated today: nothing is backdated silently, and either party can compare the stamp with the registered-letter receipt.
Membership rule. The AdminLanding membership covers both parties: when one party is a member, the other party of the relationship pays nothing; an employee whose employer is not on the platform can take it for their own documents. €6 a month, renewed automatically every month; cancel any time from your account, effective at the end of the current monthly period. Electronic signature is optional — €1.50 per signer, credits shared across all your documents (Rental and Home employment). The calculator, the calendar, the reminders and the invitation stay free.
Documents verified against the CCN 3239 as of 29/09/2026 — articles read: 44.1.3, 63.2.1, 64.1, 64.2, 64.3, 64.4, 69, 119.1, 119.3, 119.5, 120, 121.1, 131.1, 161.1.1.1, 161.1.3, 161.3, 162.1, 162.4.1, 162.6, 163.1, avenant n° 10 annexes 5/6. Information only, not legal advice.
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Notice end date, end-of-contract indemnity, paid-leave indemnity and the documents hand-over calendar, computed from the rules of the convention collective IDCC 3239 for both parties. No account needed for the calculation.
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Documents for both parties — in the membership
The AdminLanding membership opens the 19 documents of a relationship — 5 written by the employer, 5 by the employee, 1 by either party, 8 naming both — issued in French with an English companion page and placed in the Vault of both parties. When one party is a member, the other party pays nothing; an employee whose employer is not on the platform can take the membership for their own documents. €6 a month, renewed automatically every month; cancel any time from your account, effective at the end of the current monthly period.
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