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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and... more +
Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings.  less -
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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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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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Internal Investigations of Harassment Claims

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In areas of French law that are ambiguous, the French Supreme Court regularly issues rulings to specify the scope of an employer’s obligations, including in the context of harassment claims. French caselaw has set the rules...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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Participation in an Anti-Competitive Cartel and Dismissal for Serious Misconduct

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On 27 February 2024, the Nîmes Court of Appeal confirmed that an employee may be dismissed for serious misconduct for participating in an anti-competitive cartel. While the risk of companies being penalised for...more

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Private life and disciplinary dismissal

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In this case submitted to the Supreme Court (“Cour de cassation”), a State health insurance agency dismissed one of its employee for gross misconduct for having sent to some of her colleagues, through her professional email...more

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Email on company account can be ‘private’

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In France, actions taken by an employee in his or her personal life cannot generally be used by the employer to justify a disciplinary dismissal. Dismissal for personal speech or activity can only be justified if it...more

Hogan Lovells

Nouveautés sur l’information des salariés, l’épargne salariale et les licenciement économiques

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Notre équipe sociale fait le point sur les actualités du mois d’octobre : de la publication du décret relatif aux nouvelles informations que l’employeur doit délivrer aux salariés aux trois arrêts relatifs à la conclusion...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

[Webinar] Looking Ahead to 2024: Global Labor and Employment Legal Update - December 6th, 11:30 am - 2:00 pm EST

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Following a dynamic year coupled with a continually evolving legal landscape, employers may feel that they are left with more questions than answers. Join us for an in-depth webinar that will unpack the most pertinent legal...more

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French Supreme Court Holds Stock Options and RSUs Are Excluded from the Calculation of the Dismissal Indemnity

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For several years, the French Supreme Court has been uncertain regarding the inclusion of stock options and restriction stock units (RSUs) in the termination indemnities (severance and notice period payment) calculation base....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

Hogan Lovells

Retour sur les nouveautés en matière de télétravail et le dispositif de rupture conventionnelle

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Notre équipe sociale revient brièvement sur des nouveautés en matière de télétravail (caractérisation d’un accident du travail pendant le télétravail, le télétravail transfrontalier en Europe, et les nouveautés à intégrer...more

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What’s new in remote work and mutual agreed termination (“rupture conventionnelle”)?

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Our Employment team takes a brief look at new developments in remote work (characterisation of an accident at work while teleworking, cross-border teleworking in Europe, and new provisions to be incorporated into...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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French Government Welcomes Draft Collective Agreement on Value Sharing

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At a time when purchasing power is a central and hot topic of debate, French unions and employers have agreed on a draft collective agreement aimed at allowing greater sharing of profit with employees. The draft agreement has...more

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Main measures of the new “Labour Market” Law in France

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The new French Law on emergency measures relating to the functioning of the French labour market for full employment, known as the "Marché du travail" Law, published in the French "Journal Officiel" on December 22, 2022,...more

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Fight for the right (not) to party?

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At the end of November, a French appeal court ruled that an employer could not dismiss an employee (called in this case “Mr T”) for refusing to participate in after-work drinks and team building activities. The judgment made...more

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Our Employment Law team reviews three rulings of the French Court of Cassation

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Specific consultation in the event of restructuring: no obligation to consult the works council upstream on strategic orientations. Payment of an annual bonus provided for by collective agreements provisions: strict...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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French Supreme Court Approves the Macron Scale for Dismissal Damages

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On May 11, 2022, the French Supreme Court issued two long-awaited decisions on the statutory scale of indemnification—i.e., the Macron scale—currently applicable in cases of dismissal without cause....more

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Our Employment Law team reviews interesting recent case law

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News from our Employment Law team on: several rulings of the Court of Cassation specifying (i) the possible sequencing of a reorganization project involving the implementation of a PSE (ii) the conciliation between a PSE and...more

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Notre équipe en Droit Social revient sur plusieurs jurisprudences récentes

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Actualités de notre équipe en Droit Social sur : plusieurs arrêts de la Cour de cassation précisant (i) le séquencement possible d’un projet de réorganisation impliquant la mise en œuvre d’un PSE (ii) la conciliation entre...more

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Dans l'actualité de la semaine en Droit Social, notre équipe revient sur deux avis et un arrêt de la Cour de cassation.

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Manquement de l’employeur à son obligation de proposer un entretien professionnel à une salariée à l’issue de son congé maternité : pas de nullité du licenciement notifié ultérieurement. Précisions sur les obligations de la...more

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Questions and Answers Regarding Collective Redundancies in France

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As part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the French government implemented a very generous furlough system designed to protect companies and avoid redundancies, i.e., terminations of employees for economic reasons....more

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