Registering an employee with CNAS: the 10-day hiring declaration

Registration links the employee to your business with social security. From then on, the contributions you pay on their salary are credited to them: they are covered for sickness, maternity and work accidents, and their salaries count towards their pension rights.

You must declare every person you pay, whatever the amount and form of pay: permanent contract, fixed-term contract, part-time, probation. An undeclared employee is not covered, and the employer still owes the contributions and penalties.

First-time registration and affiliation: the difference

An employee who has worked before already has a number: you only apply for affiliation. For a first job, the application also registers them for the first time, hence the birth certificate n° 12.

to declare each new hire

10 days

standard overall contribution rate

34.5%

share paid by the employer

25%

share withheld from the salary

9%

The application is made by the employer, not the employee. This covers:

• any company (SARL, EURL, SPA, SNC) that hires, including for a salaried manager (paid minority or non-partner manager);
• a trader, craftsperson or liberal professional who hires;
• any employer, for each new hire, even if it already has other employees.

The majority managing partner and the sole trader do not register with CNAS for themselves: they fall under CASNOS, the self-employed workers' fund.

1. 1

   Sign the contract and note the date

   The hiring date starts the 10-day period. Put the deadline in your diary.

2. 2

   Check your employer registration

   First employee? Also prepare the IM-03 activity declaration, due within the same period.

3. 3

   Ask the employee for their documents

   Their social security number if they have worked before, otherwise their birth certificate n° 12; their family record if married.

4. 4

   Fill in the affiliation application

   Exact identity, hiring date, job, salary. Sign and stamp it.

5. 5

   File it at the CNAS office

   Within 10 days. Keep the stamped copy or receipt.

6. 6

   Declare their salaries

   Include the employee in your quarterly (or monthly) contribution return and pay within 30 days.

7. 7

   Consider reductions

   If the hire qualifies, apply for the employer-share reduction with the CNAS form.

At the CNAS office for your business

The affiliation application and its documents go to the CNAS office your business belongs to, the one for the wilaya of the registered office. Ask for a stamped copy or a receipt: it proves you met the deadline.

On the e-declaration portal

Once registered as an employer, you declare staff movements (arrivals and departures), contributions and the DAS on the CNAS e-declaration portal. Check in your account which hiring steps are offered online.

After registration

The employee can download their own registration certificate on the CNAS El Hanaa space. You include their salary in your next contribution return.

What Neuron does

Neuron only fills in business setup forms and does not do bookkeeping or routine returns: this guide is free and all you need to do it yourself.

The deadline is 10 days from hiring, meaning the first working day set in the contract. Probation does not push this deadline back.

When the employee leaves, declare the departure too. Staff arrivals and departures are declared on the e-declaration portal.

• Waiting for the end of probation to declare: the 10-day period starts at hiring.
• Not declaring a part-time or low-paid employee: everyone who is paid must be declared.
• Forgetting the IM-03 activity declaration for the very first employee.
• Writing the name differently from the birth certificate, or getting the social security number wrong.
• Registering the majority managing partner with CNAS: they fall under CASNOS.
• Forgetting to declare the departure when the employee leaves.