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Too Hot to Work? France Introduces New Heatwave Law

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Against the backdrop of climate change and the increasing health and safety challenge of preventing heat-related risks at work, France has introduced a new decree reinforcing the obligations on employers to prevent these...more

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Age is Just a Number: France Embraces Its ‘Silver Workforce’

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France has tabled a new collective agreement aimed at promoting the employment of ‘experienced employees’. While its entry into force still has some way to go, the proposed agreement represents an important step towards...more

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2024 Summer Olympics Series: France

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The 2024 Summer Olympic Games begin Friday, July 26. To celebrate this international event, Littler offices around the globe will share key changes in labor and employment laws that have transpired since the last time their...more

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France: Restrictive Covenants

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AT A GLANCE - Restrictive covenants are aimed at protecting the company’s economic interests for a short period of time after the termination of the employment relationship....more

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Can a Hidden Workplace Affair Lead to Dismissal?

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In a recent judgment, France’s Court of Cassation approved the dismissal of a senior executive who had maintained a hidden romantic relationship for more than four years with another employee....more

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European Elections Shakedown: Impact of the Dissolution of the French National Assembly on Employment Law

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“The heaviest consequences in the history of the Fifth Republic”—this is how French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, described the early elections planned after French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the...more

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French Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal Caused by Office Romance

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France is proud to call itself the land of human rights, and Paris the city of love. This pride is not unfounded given how strictly an employer’s actions are regulated when it comes to office romance.  As inappropriate as...more

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Employment Flash - March 2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

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Paid Leave in France: New Rules Applicable

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In a series of decisions given on 13 September 2023, the French Supreme Court has overruled its previous case law regarding the paid leave entitlements of employees who are absent from work as a result of sickness, an...more

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SAF Logistics fined for mishandling employee data

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French authorities have fined an air freight company for a string of employee data violations, and for its failure to fully cooperate with their investigation....more

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Geolocation: employees must be informed

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France’s highest court has intervened in a case involving an employee dismissed based on the geolocation information of his work vehicle. ...more

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French Civil High Court Grants New Paid Leave Entitlement

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The French Civil High Court recently issued five noteworthy decisions on employees’ entitlement to accrue paid leave. The French Labor Code requires that employees perform work to accrue paid leave....more

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French Labor Law | Key Considerations

When considering M&A transactions or group restructuring in France, companies should take into account the high level of protection that French law affords to employees....more

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Employment Flash - June 2023

New York, Minnesota and NLRB Act To Limit Noncompetes - New York Legislature Passes Bill To Ban Post-Employment Noncompetes - On June 20, 2023, the New York state Legislature passed a bill that bans post-employment...more

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New French Law Incorporates EU Directives on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions and on Work-Life Balance

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On March 9, 2023, France adopted a much-anticipated statute transposing into French law the EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions (2019/1152) (I.), and the EU Directive on Work-life Balance for...more

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Value-sharing within a company: upcoming changes

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On 10 February 2023, the national social partners concluded an interprofessional collective bargaining agreement ("ANI") on value-sharing, which has since been signed by the majority of the representative unions....more

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Littler World Cup Matchups Part 7: Common Mistakes Made by Foreign Employers

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The final World Cup game is set for this Sunday, December 18. Over the past month we have been staging our own matchups, comparing labor and employment laws of participating countries....more

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Internal Investigations: Detailing the admissibility of such evidence before French courts

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The French Supreme Civil Court (Cour de cassation) recently provided further details on the conditions for admissibility of an internal investigation in the context of an employment dispute....more

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The main social measures introduced by the law of August 16, 2022 on emergency measures to protect purchasing power and the...

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Law no. 2022-1158 of August 16, 2022 and the Amending Finance Law for 2022 provide for various measures directly involving the employer, with the objective of limiting the impact of inflation on household budgets....more

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Focus on French Labor Law Changes Coming Into Effect in the Second Half of 2022

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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

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The French Supreme Court Confirms the Maximum Amount of Damages for Unfair Dismissal

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The French Supreme Court confirmed the application of the scale provided by the French labor code for claims of unfair dismissal (called the Macron Scale) in two decisions dated 11 May 2022,2 thereby providing some security...more

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New Year, New Actions to Be Taken: What Is Changing Regarding French Labor Law in 2022

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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

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French IP Law Update – The Delicate Balance between Employers and Inventors: A French Revolution?

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Counsel from jurisdictions where payments to employee-inventors only arise from contracts or employee incentive programs are sometimes surprised when they first become involved with jurisdictions that have statutory payment...more

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French Data Protection Authority Provides Q&A Guidance on Health Pass and COVID-19 Vaccination Obligations

As jurisdictions across the world grapple with the effects of the more infectious delta variant, many governments either have taken or are considering more restrictive measures to reduce infection rates and community spread...more

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Macron Bonus: What's New for 2021

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The Macron Bonus was introduced following a French social movement (named “mouvement des gilets jaunes”) in 2018. The Macron Bonus has been renewed once again for 2021 as part of the French Amending Finance Law 2021 dated 19...more

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