French Mandatory Annual Negotiation (NAO) Minutes Template

Streamline Your French NAO Documentation with Paperform

If you're managing a French business, you know that the annual mandatory negotiation (Négociation Annuelle Obligatoire or NAO) isn't optional—it's a legal requirement. This template helps HR managers, legal teams, and business owners in France create clear, compliant minutes for their NAO meetings, covering salary reviews, working conditions, professional equality, and more.

What makes this template essential for French businesses?

The NAO is required for all French companies with union delegates or, in their absence, elected staff representatives. These negotiations must cover specific topics including remuneration, working time, and profit-sharing. Missing or incomplete documentation can result in penalties and legal challenges.

This Paperform template captures all the critical elements: company details (including SIRET and URSSAF registration), meeting participants, negotiation topics, proposals discussed, agreements reached, and digital signatures from management and employee representatives.

How Paperform helps you stay compliant

Rather than wrestling with Word documents passed around by email, use Paperform to create a structured, professional NAO minutes form that ensures nothing gets missed. Conditional logic guides you through the relevant sections based on your company structure, while Papersign (papersign.com) integration lets you collect legally binding eSignatures from all parties directly within the workflow—no printing, scanning, or chasing signatures.

Once submitted, you can use Stepper (stepper.io) to automatically file the completed minutes in your document management system, notify relevant stakeholders, and set reminders for next year's NAO deadline.

Built for French HR professionals and legal teams

Whether you're an HR manager in a mid-sized enterprise, a legal consultant advising multiple French clients, or a business owner handling compliance in-house, this template adapts to your needs. It's designed with French labor law in mind, ensuring your NAO documentation meets URSSAF and labor inspector requirements while remaining easy to complete and share.

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