Needexperts: Your Gateway to Wage Portage in France
Wage Portage creates a three-way partnership between a business client, a skilled consultant, and a licensed umbrella company.
If you’re seeking expert professionals to assist with your projects in France, Needexperts provides compliant and flexible solutions.
About Wage Portage / Employer of Record (EOR) in France
To employ a person in France — whether a French or European national — your company must normally have a legal entity or representative established in France.
If you don’t have a local structure but wish to hire talent in France, Needexperts provides the solution as your Employer of Record (EOR) or Wage Portage company.
As an EOR, Needexperts becomes the legal employer on your behalf and assumes full responsibility for all employment-related obligations — contracts, payroll, taxes, and social security contributions.
This model allows your company to work with professionals in France legally and safely, without creating a subsidiary.
The legal framework of Wage Portage:
EOR / Wage Portage is strictly regulated under French law:
- Only registered companies whose sole activity is Wage Portage are authorized to provide this service.
- They must hold a financial guarantee ensuring the payment of employees’ salaries and social contributions, even in case of default.
These legal safeguards are essential: employees working through a non-compliant company risk losing their entitlement to unemployment benefits.
Needexperts operates fully in compliance with French regulations, protecting both your company and your employees from any legal or social risk
What do we do ?
What we do
- Employer-of-Record (“EOR”) : we legally employ your staff in France so you don’t need a local entity.
- Recruitment support : local talent search through our partner network.
- Full administrative management : employment contracts, social and fiscal filings, payroll, salary payments, expense reimbursement.
Benefits for your company
- One monthly invoice, zero administrative burden.
- Fast market entry, no subsidiary required.
- Legal and regulatory compliance assured.
Benefits for your employee
- French employment contract with full rights : health insurance, pension, unemployment benefits.
- Monthly payslip just like any French employee.
- You provide the mission, we handle the employment guarantee
How wage portage Works
Simple and Fast Setup
The process is quick and straightforward.
You choose the person you want to hire and send us the key details:
mission description, desired salary, bonuses, benefits, and reimbursable expenses.
We calculate the total cost — including all social charges, taxes, insurance, and benefits — and send you a clear quotation.
Once approved, we sign a service agreement and hire the employee under a French employment contract.
From that point, the consultant is legally employed by Needexperts, your Employer of Record (EOR) or Wage Portage company.
You manage the mission — we manage compliance, payroll, and social protection.
One employee = one secure service contract.
Why choose Needexperts ?
Need to hire remote employees in France?
Want to expand your business without creating a subsidiary?
Looking for a simple, compliant, and cost-effective solution to hire locally?
With Needexperts as your Employer of Record (EOR) – or Wage Portage company – you can start operating in France immediately, without setting up a legal entity and without dealing with complex administrative procedures.
For more than 10 years, Needexperts has supported international companies and consultants across France, providing personalized guidance, secure employment solutions, and total compliance with French labor law.
FAQ
All you need to know about NEEDEXPERTS PEO EOR services in France
What is the difference between an EOR, PEO, Umbrella company in France ?
PEO Professional Employer Organization
A PEO, or “Professional Employer Organization”, manages your administrative services such as payroll, recruiting, benefits, etc.
It’s a bit like having your on-site HR department in a foreign country.
In France, a PEO is not able to hire employees.
EOR ‘Employer of record
The EOR ‘Employer of record’ is a company to which you turn to recruit talent because you do not have a legal entity in France. The EOR is the legal employer of the person who will work for you. The EOR takes care of all the administrative procedures, and hires the person you want.
Umbrella Company
Umbrella companies provide a payroll service. This service includes the management of salaries, timesheets and invoices. The company is also in charge of paying the salaries.
Wage Portage
In France, Umbrella companies and EOR are merged concepts, we talk here about Wage Portage.
Wage portage in France allows independent consultants to benefit the advantages of employee status while remaining autonomous in their activities.
The consultant concerned signs a contract with an umbrella company. Fees are converted into a wage. The consultant then enjoys his or her paycheck. In other words, wage portage consists of several steps :
- The independent consultant signs a contract with a wage portage company.
- The independent consultant is then an independent contractor.
- The independent contractor searches for his or her clients.
- The clients pay the invoice to the umbrella company.
- The company pays a monthly wage to the independent consultant.
It is important to stress that only a certified company can hire employees with this wage portage status. This constraint makes wage portage safer.
How long does it take to start off with a new employee ?
It can be very quick, if you have already negotiated the salary and defined in detail the job description with the future employee; all that then remains is to formalize these agreements on a service contract.
When the service contract is signed, the employee can be declared a Wagram employee.
What are the conditions to work in France ?
To work in France, the worker must be French or from the EEC and must be resident in France.
We can employ for you people who can work anywhere in the world. They must be French residents and EEC nationals.
What type of contract can we offer ?
The contract may take the form of a fixed-term contract (CDD in France) or an open-ended contract (CDI). The contracts are the same as for standard employees. Freelance contractors enjoy a specific framework. All these elements are included in the collective labour agreement on wage portage dated 22 March 2017.
As an example, the independent contractors are completely free to define the commercial prospection strategy (Article 2), their schedule (Article 26), their business volume (Article 27) and their workplace (Article 23).
A portage contract ensures an efficient mix between entrepreneurship freedom and the safety of working as an employee
What about insurances ?
Our employees are covered by our insurances:
- our RCP Insurance covering the risks in civil and professional liability,
- a financial guarantee of salaries with the AXA insurance company,
- travel assistance and insurance for all travel in France and abroad.
What are the legal working hours in France ?
Monday to Friday 5 days a week, 7 hours a day, 35 hours a week.
What are the paid leaves in France ?
Employees are entitled to 30 open days (5 weeks) for a full year of work.