The URSSAF end-of-contract documents explained
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When a home employment contract ends, the Code du travail names four documents: the certificat de travail, the reçu pour solde de tout compte, the attestation employeur France Travail and the last payslip. For a particulier employeur they come out of the CESU or Pajemploi account: the employer generates them, the employee receives them. This page states what each one is, who produces it, who receives it and the article that requires it.
The rules in one minute
- Certificat de travail — C. trav. L.1234-19: produced by the employer at the end of every contract, whatever the reason.
- Reçu pour solde de tout compte — L.1234-20: lists the sums paid; contestable within 6 months of signature, for the sums it lists.
- Attestation employeur France Travail — R.1234-9: generated from the CESU or Pajemploi account, handed to the employee.
- Last pay declared on CESU or Pajemploi at the latest the 5th of the following month; the last payslip follows the declaration.
Document → who produces it → who receives it → article
| Document | Who produces it | Who receives it | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificat de travail (employment certificate) | The employer, from the CESU or Pajemploi account | The employee | C. trav. art. L.1234-19 |
| Reçu pour solde de tout compte (final settlement receipt) | The employer, listing the sums paid at the end of the contract | The employee, who signs it — it may be contested within 6 months of signature, for the sums it lists | C. trav. art. L.1234-20 |
| Attestation employeur France Travail | The employer, generated from the CESU or Pajemploi account | The employee, for the unemployment-benefit file | C. trav. art. R.1234-9 |
| 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 | The employee | C. trav. art. L.3141-28 |
The certificat de travail (C. trav. L.1234-19)
Delivered at the end of the contract, whatever the way it ended (dismissal, resignation, rupture conventionnelle, retrait d'enfant, end of a fixed-term contract). It states the dates of entry and exit and the nature of the job held. On CESU and Pajemploi, the certificate is generated by the service once the end of contract has been declared in the employer's account. It carries no assessment of the employee.
The reçu pour solde de tout compte (C. trav. L.1234-20)
An inventory of the sums paid to the employee at the end of the contract: last salary, indemnité compensatrice de congés payés (L.3141-28), indemnité compensatrice de préavis where the notice is not worked at the employer's initiative, and the end-of-contract indemnity where due (CCN art. 163.1 for a home employee, art. 121.1 for an assistant maternel). The employee signs it and keeps a copy. It can be contested within 6 months of signature; after that period it becomes libératoire for the employer, for the sums it lists only.
The attestation employeur France Travail (C. trav. R.1234-9)
The document France Travail uses to examine the employee's unemployment rights. For a particulier employeur it is not filled in by hand: it is generated from the CESU or Pajemploi account after the end-of-contract declaration, and given to the employee. The service transmits the data to France Travail; the employee's copy is what accompanies their registration.
The last pay and the last payslip
The last month's pay is declared on CESU or Pajemploi at the latest the 5th of the month following the month worked. The payslip is produced by the service from that declaration. The final pay carries, in addition to the salary of the days worked:
| Sum | When it is due | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Indemnité compensatrice de congés payés | Whenever paid leave remains untaken at the end of the contract | C. trav. L.3141-28 |
| Indemnité de licenciement | Home employee dismissed with 8 months of seniority or more, except faute grave or lourde: 1/4 month per year up to 10 years, 1/3 beyond | CCN art. 163.1 |
| Indemnité de rupture (assistant maternel) | Retrait d'enfant after 9 months of accueil or more, except faute grave or lourde or agrément event: 1/80 of the gross salaries of the contract | CCN art. 121.1 |
| Rupture conventionnelle indemnity | Home employee only; not lower than the art. 163.1 indemnity | CCN art. 161.3 · C. trav. L.1237-13 |
The steps that lead to these documents — convocation, entretien, notification, notice — are on the page on ending the contract correctly. The services themselves: cesu.urssaf.fr · pajemploi.urssaf.fr.
Quick answer
At the end of a home employment contract, the particulier employeur produces four documents from the CESU or Pajemploi account and the employee receives them: the certificat de travail (C. trav. L.1234-19), the reçu pour solde de tout compte (L.1234-20 — contestable within 6 months of signature, for the sums it lists), the attestation employeur France Travail (R.1234-9) and the last payslip, which follows the last declaration made at the latest the 5th of the following month. The final pay includes the indemnité compensatrice de congés payés (L.3141-28) and, where due, the end-of-contract indemnity of CCN art. 163.1 (home employee) or art. 121.1 (assistant maternel).
At the same moment, on the other side
While the employer declares the last pay and generates the documents, the employee receives the certificat de travail and the attestation France Travail, checks the reçu pour solde de tout compte against the payslips of the contract, signs it and keeps a copy — the 6-month contestation window of C. trav. L.1234-20 runs from that signature for both parties.
Frequently Asked Questions
The four documents, the last declaration, the sums of the final pay.
Q.Which documents does a particulier employeur produce at the end of a contract?
Q.By when is the last pay declared on CESU or Pajemploi?
Q.What does the reçu pour solde de tout compte do?
Q.What is the attestation employeur France Travail for?
Q.Does the same apply to an assistant maternel paid through Pajemploi?
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.1234-19, L.1234-20, R.1234-9, L.3141-28, L.1237-13, L.1237-14).
- 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 24/08/2026 on Légifrance and code.travail.gouv.fr. Page published 2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00, last updated 2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00.
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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 of the convocation, then notification by registered letter from the 4th to the 30th jour ouvrable counted from the day after the entretien). 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.
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