Caisse Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics

What Caisse Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics does

Caisse Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics (CNETP) is a French non-profit professional organization (association loi 1901) created by ministerial decree on April 6, 1937, and legally mandated under French Labor Code articles L.3141-32, L.3141-33, and D.3141-12 to manage paid leave (congés payés) for the French public works sector. The organization serves as the compulsory intermediary for approximately 9,000+ member companies and 294,000+ employees, administering paid leave indemnities, weather-related unemployment benefits (chômage intempéries), and public procurement attestations. CNETP operates within the CIBTP France network, which coordinates 10 territorial and 2 national paid leave funds across the Building and Public Works sectors and sets policy direction for weather unemployment indemnification.

The organization runs a digital infrastructure comprising three role-segmented secured online portals (Adhérents for companies, Salariés for employees, Partenaires for federations and partner organizations), a mobile application, and a 24/7 voice server. Core technology processes DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) data feeds from member companies to calculate contributions and accrued leave rights, with SEPA direct debit for payment processing. ISO 9001:2015 certification was renewed in November 2025 by Bureau Veritas, and a 2025 satisfaction survey across 7,106 surveyed companies produced a 7.4/10 service rating.

Revenue mechanics rely entirely on mandatory employer contributions: congés payés rates are set by the CNETP Board of Directors, while chômage intempéries rates are fixed by ministerial decree for each April-to-March campaign. In addition, CNETP acts as the mandated collection agent for federal and professional contributions on behalf of FNTP, CNATP, FFB, FFIE, OPPBTP, APAS-BTP-RP, and APAS-PROVENCE. The organization also maintains bilateral conventions with ULAK (Germany), BUAK (Austria), and CNCE (Italy) to coordinate posting arrangements for French public works companies temporarily operating abroad. Free two-day training sessions are offered to member company personnel, and the organization holds no external investors, operating as a mutualist professional fund.

Name

Caisse Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics

Legal name

Caisse Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics

Website

https://cnetp.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1937

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Caisse Nationale des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics (CNETP) is a French mandated non-profit fund, established in 1937, that administers paid leave, weather-related unemployment benefits, and professional contributions for 9,000+ public works companies and 294,000+ employees across France.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Cotisations congés payés: Mandatory contributions collected from member companies to finance paid leave compensation for employees. Rates are set by the CNETP Board of Directors. Contributions cover employee leave indemnities and corresponding social charges.
2. Cotisations chômage intempéries: Mandatory contributions to fund weather-related unemployment benefits. Applied to all wages including administrative staff. National solidarity-based risk sharing system across all network funds. Rates set by ministerial decree for each campaign period (April 1 - March 31).
3. Cotisations OPPBTP: Contributions collected for the Organisme Professionnel de Prévention du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics to finance workplace safety and accident prevention.
4. Cotisations APAS-BTP-RP and APAS-PROVENCE: Social action fund contributions for employee welfare, vacation, and leisure services in Île-de-France and Provence regions.
5. Cotisations fédérales (FNTP, CNATP, FFB, FFIE): Federal contributions collected on behalf of professional federations for representation, professional card delivery, and industry organizations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CNETP is a French non-profit association that serves as the legally mandated fund (caisse) for the public works sector, paying employee paid leave indemnities and weather-related unemployment compensation. It also collects and redistributes mandatory contributions on behalf of multiple professional federations (FNTP, CNATP, FFB, FFIE, OPPBTP, APAS-BTP-RP, APAS-PROVENCE), issues public procurement attestations, and provides digital self-service tools including secure online portals, a mobile application, and a voice server.

Product overview

CNETP operates as a unified administrative services platform providing paid vacation management, weather-related unemployment compensation, and professional contribution collection for the French public works sector. The organization manages three interconnected secure online portals (for member companies, employees, and partners), a mobile application, and automated voice services. The core offerings include paid leave indemnification, unemployment weather benefits, DSN data processing, automatic SEPA payments, member training, and consolidated contribution collection for partner organizations (FNTP, CNATP, FFB, FFIE, OPPBTP, APAS). All services are administered through the CIBTP France network under ISO 9001 certification.

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Products and services

• Gestion des Congés Payés (Paid Leave Management) Core statutory service paying paid leave indemnities and corresponding social charges to employees of public works member companies, including Ouvriers, ETAM, and Cadres personnel.
• Indemnisation Chômage Intempéries (Weather Unemployment Compensation) Weather-related unemployment compensation for construction workers when work is interrupted due to bad weather conditions, administered under the CIBTP France mandate with national solidarity risk pooling.
• Espace Sécurisé Adhérents (Member Companies Portal) Online secure portal for member companies to manage contributions, declarations, certificates, account statements, and public procurement attestations. Includes SEPA direct debit payment processing.
• Espace Sécurisé Salariés (Employees Portal) Online secure portal for employees of member companies to track paid leave entitlements, submit leave requests, view payment attestations, and manage CET/PERCO accounts.
• Espace Sécurisé Partenaires (Partners Portal) Online secure portal for partner organizations (OPPBTP, FNTP, FFB, CNATP, FFIE, APAS) to access relevant professional organization contribution data.
• Application Mobile CNETP Salarié (Mobile App) Smartphone application allowing employees of member companies to track their paid leave entitlements and related information directly from mobile devices.
• Serveur Vocal (Voice Server) Automated 24/7 voice server accessible at 01.07.38.09.00 providing personalized information about salary payments and leave matters for employees.
• Traitement DSN (DSN Data Processing) Processing of DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) data feeds from member companies to calculate contributions and accrued employee leave rights.
• Formations Adhérents (Member Training) Free two-day training sessions for personnel of member companies covering paid leave and weather-related unemployment topics.
• Prélèvement Automatique SEPA (SEPA Direct Debit) Automatic SEPA direct debit payment service for member companies in regular situation, processing payments on the first business day following contribution due dates.
• Collecte de Cotisations (Contribution Collection) Collection of mandatory contributions on behalf of multiple professional organizations including FNTP, CNATP, FFB, FFIE, OPPBTP, APAS-BTP-RP, and APAS-PROVENCE, including paid leave, weather unemployment, prevention, federal, and social action contributions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 294,000+ employees and 9,000+ companies managed nationally
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CIBTP FrancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCNETP is a member of CIBTP France (Réseau des Caisses de congés payés), the federation coordinating all paid leave funds in the Building and Public Works sectors. CIBTP France holds responsibility for weather unemployment management and sets policy direction. CNETP operates under CIBTP France mandate for indemnification of weather-related unemployment and contribution recovery.
• OPPBTP (Organisme Professionnel de Prévention du BTP)coreOthersCNETP collects contributions on behalf of OPPBTP, the professional prevention organization for building and public works. Contributions fund workplace safety, hygiene preservation, accident prevention, and occupational disease reduction.
• FNTP (Fédération Nationale des Travaux Publics)coreOthersCNETP collects federal contributions for FNTP, which represents the profession before public authorities, manages technical organizations, issues professional entrepreneur cards, and supports industry information and assistance services.
• CNATP (Chambre Nationale des Artisans des TP et du Paysage)minorOthersCNETP collects contributions for CNATP which promotes, defends, and represents the economic and social interests of artisanal public works and landscaping companies.
• FFB (Fédération Française du Bâtiment)minorOthersCNETP collects contributions for FFB for companies with building activities, supporting similar missions to FNTP for the building sector.
• FFIE (Fédération Française des Intégrateurs Electriciens)minorOthersCNETP collects contributions for FFIE representing electrical building integrators before public authorities.
• APAS-BTP-RP (Association Paritaire d'Action Sociale BTP Région Parisienne)minorOthersCNETP collects APAS-BTP-RP contributions providing social welfare, vacation, and leisure services for employees of member companies in the Île-de-France region (8 departments).
• APAS-PROVENCEminorOthersCNETP collects APAS-PROVENCE contributions providing similar social welfare services for the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region (6 departments).
• ULAK (Caisse de congés payés allemande)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBilateral convention between CIBTP France and ULAK organizing exemption rules for French companies temporarily posting staff to Germany, allowing dispensation from German paid leave fund requirements.
• BUAK (Caisse de congés payés autrichienne)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBilateral convention between CIBTP France and BUAK organizing exemption rules for French companies temporarily posting staff to Austria.
• CNCE (Caisse de congés paie italienne)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBilateral convention between CIBTP France and CNCE organizing exemption rules for French companies temporarily posting staff to Italy.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• AGRICA: AGRICA is the French agricultural-sector social protection group running paid leave, retirement, health and prévoyance for agricultural employees. It applies the same mutualist/convention-based sector social-protection model as CNETP, just for agriculture rather than public works.
• KLESIA: KLESIA is a French mutualist social protection group covering retirement, prévoyance and health for employees across multiple sectors. It mirrors CNETP's mutualist governance and convention-driven contribution model.
• PRO BTP: PRO BTP is the French construction-sector social protection group covering paid leave, health, retirement and welfare for building and public works employees. It is the closest direct comparator to CNETP for the French construction social-protection value chain.
• CIBTP France: CIBTP France is the federation coordinating all congés payés and intempéries funds in the BTP sector; CNETP itself operates under CIBTP France mandate. CIBTP France is the umbrella body whose policy framework and national solidarité mechanisms CNETP executes.

Broad incumbents

• URSSAF: URSSAF is the French national agency collecting social security contributions and managing paid leave-related flows for the general economy. It is the broader public-sector counterpart that CNETP coordinates with for DSN and social charges.
• AGIRC-ARRCO: AGIRC-ARRCO is the French mandatory supplementary retirement scheme for all private-sector employees. While retirement rather than paid leave, it shares CNETP's convention-based, sector-wide contribution collection architecture.
• UNEDIC: UNEDIC manages the French unemployment insurance regime (Assurance chômage). It is the general-economy analog of CNETP's intempéries function and a key public-sector interlocutor.

Regional players

• BUAK (Bauarbeiter-Urlaubs- und Abfertigungskasse): BUAK is the Austrian paid leave and severance fund for construction workers, with which CIBTP France (and by extension CNETP) has a bilateral posting convention. It is the Austrian functional equivalent of CNETP.
• ULAK (Urlaubs- und Lohnausgleichskasse): ULAK is the German paid leave fund for the construction sector and a bilateral partner of CIBTP France/CNETP for cross-border posting. It is the German functional equivalent of CNETP.
• CNCE (Commissione Nazionale Cassa Edile): CNCE coordinates the Italian construction-sector Cassa Edile system that administers paid leave and sector welfare. It is the Italian functional equivalent of CNETP and a bilateral partner under CIBTP conventions.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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