How it works
To mandate Chèque service to handle the salary declarations to social insurance and the administrative follow-up, nothing could be simpler!
Talk with your employee 1/4
Comply with your legal obligations
Social security is essential to protect your employees against illness, accidents, job loss and old age, guaranteeing security for all.
Declaring paid wages is a legal obligation for every employer, and the employee cannot object to it, regardless of their status (with or without a work permit). However, being declared through Chèque service does not constitute regularisation and does not grant a work permit.
Consult the standard employment contract for domestic work (CTT-EDom)
The domestic work sector in Geneva is governed by the Standard Employment Contract for Domestic Work / "contrat-type de travail de l'économie domestique (CTT-EDom)". We encourage you to review it to clearly understand your obligations and responsibilities.
Agree on a salary
It is important that the employer and the employee communicate openly to agree together on salary conditions, taking into account the legal minimum wage in force, as well as the skills, experience and responsibilities related to the position.
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Here is the detail of the social insurance applied by Chèque service.
| Minimum gross hourly wage 2025 | Without professional experience | With +4 years of professional experience |
| Holidays not included* | CHF 24.48 | CHF 24.74 |
| 4 weeks of holidays included** | CHF 24.48 + 8.33% = CHF 26.52 | CHF 24.74 + 8.33% = CHF 26.81 |
| 5 weeks of holidays included | CHF 24.48 + 10.64% = CHF 27.09 | CHF 24.74 + 8.33% = CHF 26.81 |
* Holidays not included in the wage; the wage is paid during the employee’s holiday period.
** Holidays included in the wage; no wage is paid during the employee’s holiday period.
Draw up a contract
The registration form is a document intended for Chèque service. However, although it contains all the minimum data required, it does not constitute an employment contract.
Draw up a written employment contract with your employee to clearly set out the specifics of your working relationship. A template is available from Chèque service here.
If you receive the assistance allowance, you must send us the contract template provided for this purpose.
Discuss with your employee to decide together whether the holiday allowance will be included in the salary or not.
If your employee lives in France and works there for more than 25% of their work activity, they must be affiliated to the French social insurance system.
Your employee lives in Switzerland and is subject to withholding tax if:
- They are a foreign national without a C permit, or
- They are a minor (under 18 years old on 31 December).
Your employee lives abroad and is subject to withholding tax if:
- They are of Swiss or foreign nationality, or
- They have a work permit limited to 120 days.
This list is not exhaustive. You can find more information by clicking here.
Please note that withholding tax is mandatory and is the responsibility of the employer.
Register 2/4
Chèque service is here to support you and relieve you of the administrative procedures required by the various social security bodies. For this, a management mandate is required. Please return the registration form duly completed and signed by you and your employee, accompanied by the following information and documents:
- Your complete contact details
- A copy of your employee's AVS or health insurance card
- Failing that, a copy of their valid identity document
- A copy of your employee's work permit (if applicable)
You also have the option to register online via our dedicated platform.
Declare 3/4
In order to declare the social charges related to your employee's salaries, Chèque service must know, each month, the net amount you pay them.
Once your registration is validated, we invite you to declare monthly salaries paid to your employee via two convenient methods: online declaration or paper declaration.
Online declaration
Simply log in to access your account and declare salaries, following our tutorial.
If you do not yet have your online access, our team is at your disposal to provide you with your account activation codes and assist you with the process.
Paper declaration
We will send you a checkbook containing coupons to return to us. This method is extremely simple and has made our success; one receipt for you, another for your employee and a final one to declare the salary paid to Chèque service each month by postal mail.
Pay 4/4
As an employer, you pay the net salary directly to your employee. Chèque service bills you for social charges according to a system of quarterly provisional advances calculated from the information provided in the registration form. Only actual charges are finally recorded and reported to the various social institutions, with a balance that is carried forward at the beginning of the year or refunded at the end of the mandate.
For clients with an online account, several options are available to you: receive a quarterly provisional advance invoice at home or manage social charge payments autonomously. It is important to note that only accounts in credit allow salary recording.
Here is a diagram of how it works
