While the European Ministers of Labor and Social Affairs reached on October 23, 2017 an agreement on the revision of the 1996 Posting of Workers Directive, in particular at the instigation of the Macron Government, France is reviewing its own legislation on the subject. On December 20, 2017, the Government indeed announced a series of […]
Telework is definitively growing at a fast speed! This type of work organization has become a true societal phenomenon in France in particular since telework has been introduced in the French Labor Code following the adoption of Law dated March 22, 2012. Today, telework is a reality in the daily life of many French employees, […]
He had promised it and he did it: The Major Reform of French Labor law was the spearhead of Emmanuel Macron’s presidential campaign. On Friday September 22, 2017, the President of the French Republic signed the five Ordinances that substantially reform French labor law. While for Emmanuel Macron this reform constitutes a “Copernican revolution” of […]
Since the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of the French Republic, the whole world has its eyes on our country and one of the issues for which Emmanuel Macron and his Government will be under much scrutiny is of course French labor and employment law. The Government’s ambition is to find innovative solutions very […]
Foreign parent companies whose French subsidiary is subject to insolvency/bankruptcy proceedings (judicial liquidation or receivership) can in certain instances be sued in tort by the employees of such subsidiary who have been dismissed. This type of claim in tort in the context of insolvency/bankruptcy proceedings is becoming an increasingly common practice in France. As such, […]
In today’s digital and “all-connected” world where 71% of French executive employees read work emails in the evening or on holiday[1], the “right to disconnect” has been officially introduced in the French Labor Code following its legislative recognition in the so-called “Work Law” of August 8, 2016. Effective as from January 1, 2017, the mandatory […]
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