The Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee (“HSWCC”), a social partner whose sphere of competence was originally limited, has gradually become a key player and is now involved in many stages of the daily life of businesses. The increasing involvement of this Committee is quite logical given the growing concerns and obligations related to health […]
Emails and files retrieved from an employee’s personal email account can be freely consulted by the employer, even in the absence of the relevant employee, insofar as they have been saved on the hard drive of the professional computer and are not marked “personal”.[1] This is the stand adopted by the Labor Chamber of the […]
Law n°2013-504 of June 14, 2013 on securing employment (the “Law”) was published in the Official Journal on June 16. Our March 2013 and May 2013 e-newsletters addressed two flagship measures of the Law: the new procedural framework governing large-scale collective dismissals and the introduction of so-called job preservation agreements. In addition to these major […]
Despite the current economic gloom in this month of May 2013 where France officially entered recession, French business managers can at least find some consolation as the Law on securing employment (the “Law”) – that recasts France’s labor and employment legislation – was definitively adopted on May 14. The Law enshrines the keystone principle of […]
Heralded and described as an essential tool to solve employment difficulties faced by both young people and seniors, the so-called “Generation Contract” scheme was introduced by the inter-professional agreement of October 19, 2012 and transposed in Law n° 2013-185 of March 1, 2013. Decree n° 2013-222 of March 15, 2013 has specified the content of […]
Stormy times – or forthcoming fireworks – for French labor law governing dismissals on economic grounds: Article 13 of the Bill on securing employment (the “Bill”), that transposes Article 20 of the Inter-professional National Agreement (“INA”) of January 11, 2013[2], was presented to the Council of Ministers on March 6, 2013.[1] It sets out in […]
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