From December 2022, a third will no longer be able to collect your salary (and this is a parity measure)

It is one of the provisions of the Rixain law, adopted in December 2021, which will be applied from the end of 2022. From December 27, salaries and social benefits must be paid into bank current accounts held or jointly held by the employee. The article of the Labor Code has been amended as follows:

“Without prejudice to the legislative provisions which impose the payment of wages in a specific form, wages are paid in cash or by crossed check or by transfer to a bank or postal current account of which the employee is the holder or co-owner. The employee cannot designate a third party to receive his salary. Any agreement to the contrary is null and void. »

Ensure employee autonomy

A targeted welcome measure “promoting women’s financial independence”.

Until then, a worker can very well instruct a third party to receive her wages, thanks to a mandate sent to the employer certifying that the payment has been made to an account not in her name. This will now be prohibited. The payment of salaries to the employee account (or to which they are joint account holders) becomes the rule and this aims in particular at “fight against the possible influence that spouses or relatives can exercise over them”.

Because economic violence, which therefore prevents the victim from acquiring economic autonomy within the couple, is a reality. They make daily life unbearable by hindering women, but they also prevent them from having the resources to escape an abusive spouse.

Internally, companies will therefore have to check the “identities referenced on supporting documents of bank or postal current accounts and ask employees to comply by submitting proof that they are indeed the joint account holders: “Only proof issued by the bank hosting the account or a RIB that mentions the surnames and first names of the holders seems capable of guaranteeing effective control. »

This modification of the labor code was part of the bill presented by LREM deputy Marie-Pierre Rixain, which aimed to accelerate economic and professional equality and also contains the setting of quotas for women in governing bodies of companies with more than 1,000 employees.

The goal is to reach 40% in 2030. If they don’t reach this goal, will have to pay penalties equal to 1% of the paycheck.

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