The main task of the works council is to look after the well-being of the company's employees. It should do everything possible to ensure that employees feel encouraged, motivated and remain committed. One way to keep this motivation intact is to offer a CE gift to employees at different times of the year. Here are the main occasions when you can offer this type of gift CE gifts to your various internal collaborators:
- The start of the school year, to motivate employees.
- At the end of the year, especially during the Christmas period, to please employees and their families.
- At a special event in the employee's life: wedding, birth of a child, etc., to show your employees that you share their joy.
- During a specific company event: seminar, meeting, etc., to mark the event in the minds of your employees.
- The retirement of an employee, to thank him/her for his/her services to the company.
- Mother's Day and Father's Day.
Criteria for choosing a CE gift
A specific gift for every occasion
It is not always easy to choose a CE gift. On the one hand, you have to respect a precise budget, and on the other hand, you have to choose an object that will please the person who receives it and sometimes also his or her family. To help you make the right choice, we advise you to adapt the works council gift to the occasion that justifies its granting. For the Christmas period, for example, we advise you to opt for toys. We recommend that you provide gifts that are likely to appeal to your employees' children, regardless of their age or gender. As not all your employees' children are the same age, you should provide toys that are suitable for all ages. You should also have gifts that are suitable for boys and others that are specific to girls. For example, you can choose animal rattles for babies and colouring books for toddlers. For young boys, you can choose a remote-controlled car or helicopter. Dolls will appeal to little girls. Teenagers will be more interested in high-tech products such as portable DVD players or Bluetooth speakers.
For special events such as seminars or meetings, you can offer the same thing to all your employees. If the CE gift is offered on the occasion of a specific event in the life of the employee, it is advisable to choose a CE gift It will give your employee the impression that he or she is receiving special attention from the company. This will give your employee the impression that they are receiving special attention from the company. For the occasion, you can offer a rather expensive works council gift, but to avoid misunderstandings and misinterpretations, always make sure that the value of the gift offered is proportionate to the position of the recipient. Even if the type of object to be offered may differ from one employee to another, the value must remain the same for all employees, or at least for employees in the same category. In this way, the works council cannot be accused of favouritism by other employees.
An interesting and useful object for the employee
There is no specific rule for the choice of the CE gift. The choice of the gift to be offered is thus free. Note, however, that like all corporate gifts, the CE gift will serve the image of your company. It is therefore advisable to choose it intelligently. We advise you to give your employees useful and interesting gifts, which they can use without shame in their daily lives. For example, a laptop sleeve, a useful office accessory such as a mobile charger for a smartphone, all embellished with your company logo, are suitable for a corporate gift to be given during seminars, etc.
For the CE gifts If you want to give a personalised gift for a special occasion, we advise you to choose an object related to the passion of the person who will receive it. If you want to please a sports fan, a sports camera should do the trick. New technology enthusiasts will be more interested in connected objects and other high-tech products. You will find a whole range of these in our catalogue. A mother will appreciate more a household appliance that she can use at home on a daily basis. Your CE gift will be more meaningful to her if you give her a raclette machine, an espresso machine, a kettle or an electric mixer, etc. Women will also be more sensitive to anything related to well-being and cocooning. A set of photophores, an assortment of essential oils, a wellness box, etc. should please them.
Don't hesitate to personalise your CE gifts
Remember that the CE gift is a kind of promotional item. That is to say that it serves to indirectly promote your company to your employees and their entourage. Therefore, do not hesitate to personalise the object that you will offer to your employees, by adding your logo or the name of the company. Thanks to our state-of-the-art marking system, we are able to personalise your company gifts according to your needs. Our techniques are highly accurate and durable. To give you an idea of the extent of our marking expertise, here are some examples of the marking techniques we use.
- Laser engraving :
This marking technique allows an extremely fine engraving. We use this type of marking for objects made of leather, glass, metal or wood that are brightly coloured. As the technique is fine, we can put the personalisation anywhere on the object you choose.
- Embossing :
If you tell us that you want to offer a CE gift with a 3D finish, we offer this type of marking. This technique is particularly suitable for waterproof products that are not white in colour.
- Pad printing
If you have a limited budget, we can refer you to pad printing. With this technique, which consists of transferring ink from a silicone pad onto the object to be personalised, we obtain excellent results at a lower cost. In addition to being quick and easy, this marking technique is also popular because it can be used even if the surface of the object to be personalised is not flat.
- Digital printing
If you want to personalise a fabric object, we use digital printing. The result is worthy of the most important ready-to-wear brands. The lifespan of the personalisation is optimal. You can be sure that the personalisation of your CE gifts will not fade with each wash.
Good to know about CE gifts
We know that, in addition to choosing a gift that will please everyone, the works council has to juggle with a tight budget. We are aware that the EC gift, which is considered a benefit in kind, can be included in the social security contributions. We are well aware that in order to avoid your works council gifts being subject to social security contributions, you are obliged to ensure that the works council gifts you offer to your employees do not exceed 5 % of the monthly Social Security ceiling. Rest assured, even with a tight budget, you will easily find original, high quality, high-tech products in our catalogue. Come and discover all our gifts for less than 5 euros.
Conditions for granting the CE gift
The CE gift is freely offered to every employee of a company. However, its granting must respect certain rules. First of all, it must be given on an optional basis. In other words, if you wish to offer this type of gift to your employees, you must not make it compulsory by including it in the collective agreement. Secondly, even if you are free to offer this type of gift to any employee in the company, you must not discriminate. You must therefore offer your CE gift to all your employees, or at least to a whole category of employees. In order to please all your employees, without blowing the budget, it would be wiser to limit the granting of this type of gift to only a few important events.
If you are planning to offer a Works Council gift for a special event such as a birth, retirement, wedding, etc., only the people directly involved in the event can benefit from the Works Council gift you are planning. This regulation allows you to manage the budget to be allocated to works council gifts for a particular event and to select from our catalogue the objects that fit into this budget. Note that you cannot use the CE gift to reward your employee whose performance you liked. You can, on the other hand, give him or her a corporate gift (which falls under a different budget). Our catalogue is also full of other types of objects that you can offer to one of your employees who has helped you sign a major contract or who has achieved a high performance.
