Restaurant tickets and wage portage: what are your rights?

The various social, employer and employee contributions

Here are the main contributions of a carried employee:

• Family allowances,
• Unemployment,
• Retirement,
• Health and everything related to accidents at work;
• Training,
• The CSG / CRDS.

Various other tax levies and social charges

The collective agreement of the branch provides for other contributions from the share of the wage portage company. They are specific to professional status of the employee carried:

• Compulsory social contributions: training, occupational medicine, conventional contribution to social dialogue;
• Social and fiscal levies such as the contribution on the value of companies (CVAE), the tax on company vehicles (TVS) or the social solidarity contribution of companies (C3S);
• The various other charges which make it possible to cover and protect the employee carried and all that is related to it: professional insurance; financial guarantees, factoring costs and cover for unpaid bills and disputes (as with late billing, for example).

How do restaurant tickets work in wage portage?

The employee in a portage situation can request tickets restaurants as soon as they are registered in the EPS. Depending on the company of wage portage, these lunch vouchers or tickets can take various and varied forms:

• Paper meal vouchers,
• Checks,
• Maps (like Swile, for example).

Thanks to these different means of payment, the employee carried, just like a conventional employee, will be able to reduce his daily expenses up to a certain predefined amount. This can range from simple errands and purchases in supermarkets to the delivery of meals through a lunch or dinner at the restaurant.

Some of these restaurant vouchers or cards are covered by the wage portage company. It can be up to 60%. Nevertheless, the professional status of employee requires that the cost of lunch vouchers remain the responsibility of the freelancer.

The exceptional situation of the frequent traveler

Frequent traveler status is granted to employees who carry out large-scale movements, over a period long enough to that they do not have the opportunity to return home for lunch, the noon or dinner, in the evening. For these specific cases, the amount of the lunch or dinner allowance is set by URSSAF itself.

The meal allowance package for frequent flyers works like follows:

• 19.40 euros for the first 3 months;
• 16.50 euros from 4 to 24 months;
• 13.60 euros from 25 to 72 months.

The situation of the little traveler

There is also the status of little traveler, who travels occasionally away from home. Here, the lunch or dinner allowance amounts to 19.10 euros. It is valid for the first 55 days of each of the employee's missions in a wage portage situation.

The non-package situation

There is a third situation which is outside the scope of the restaurant vouchers: the statement of actual costs. Thus, there exists two main configurations:

• The carried employee sends his invoices in the form of an expense report, if it concerns a meal with a client.
• The carried employee sends a time-stamped invoice for meals taken outside the package during occasional trips which prevents the return to home or work site.

Attention, these solutions are only allowed from Monday noon to Friday noon. Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday, as well as the days public holidays are not eligible.