Empowering your growth
A solution offered through Nexoris Portage, our umbrella employment company, that lets your freelance consultants benefit from salaried-employee status while working on your client engagements.
The consultant has a fully compliant employment contract, ensuring a clear legal framework.
The arrangement fully complies with the legal framework for umbrella employment as defined by the French Labor Code.
The consultant is paid every month, regardless of the end client's payment terms.
The umbrella employee receives full social protection: health insurance, pension, unemployment cover, disability and supplementary health coverage.
Third Parties Umbrella Services are for IT services companies and consultancies that want to bring freelance consultants onto their client engagements while offering them a secure and compliant framework.
It is especially well suited when:
Third Parties Umbrella Services are a tripartite contractual arrangement between the IT services company, the umbrella company (Nexoris Portage) and the consultant.
This model lets the consultant enjoy salaried-employee status while still operating autonomously on the IT services company's engagements.
The IT services company and the consultant agree on the engagement terms (scope, duration, rate).
The IT services company and Nexoris Portage sign a service agreement.
Nexoris Portage and the consultant sign an employment contract (permanent or fixed-term) covering the engagement.
The consultant carries out the engagement for the IT services company.
Nexoris Portage invoices the IT services company for the work and pays the consultant their salary and social contributions.
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Here are answers to the main questions you may have:
Third Parties Umbrella Services are run by Nexoris Portage, our umbrella employment company. It becomes the consultant's legal employer and handles all administrative, social and contractual obligations.
