Need to Know Amounts from 1 January 2024 - €11.65 - The legal minimum hourly wage has increased to €11.65 gross (from €11.52 in 2023). The amount of the monthly minimum wage in France is now €1,766.92 gross for 35 worked...more
Reminder: Employers are obligated to reimburse employee travel costs regardless of the distance between the employee’s residence and the workplace - According to the French National Association of Human Resources (HR)...more
The Gender Equality Index, created in France in September 2018 (Gender Equality Index), helps companies measure professional inequalities between women and men. By 1 March of each year, companies with at least 50 employees...more
Key Figure as at 1 January 2022: €1,603.12 gross: The amount of the gross monthly minimum wage from 1 January 2022 (Decree no.°2021-1741 of 22 December 2021). The Key News to Take Note of for 2022: Remote Working and Update...more
Since 19 May 2021, France has been going through a series of steps that should lead to the lifting of the majority of health and social restrictions imposed on its territory since November 2020 and France’s “third lockdown.” ...more
In November 2019, a national survey indicated that only three percent of French employees remotely worked on a regular basis. After a year of the global health crisis, the situation is different as companies have had to...more
After a slow spring and an eventful summer, the return to the business world proved to be particularly perilous. Managing the aftermath of the lockdown continues to require ever-greater attention, in the context of dreaded...more
The current COVID-19 pandemic continues to raise many issues on employee privacy and how employers may balance processing their employees’ data with ensuring safety in the workplace. ...more
On 28 April 2020, the French Prime Minister issued the National plan for the end of the lockdown. Further to this announcement, the French Health Ministry published a national map reflecting the intensity of the COVID-19...more
On 3 May 2020, the French Labor Ministry published a “National protocol regarding the end of the lockdown for companies to ensure health and safety of the employees.” A follow-up report will be published on 7 May 2020 to...more
K&L Gates is proud to release the latest update of our Global Employer Guide. Created to complement our global employer solutions service, the interactive guide provides a quick, concise summary of the main employment law...more
Main French news in 2020:
The new French employee representative body called the CSE has now replaced the current “Employee Delegates” (“Délégués du Personnel”) in companies with at least 11 employees and the three bodies,...more
Over the past few years, the “individual mutual termination agreement” ("rupture conventionnelle individuelle") has become an increasingly popular method of terminating employment contracts. ...more