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THE SINGLE DOCUMENT FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF PROFESSIONAL RISKS (“DUERP”)

employees, Human Resources, Law, Regulation, Travail / 5 minutes of reading

[Credit image aymane jdidi from Pixabay] The law of August 2nd, 2021, applicable from March 31st, 2022, modified the rules relating to risk assessment in companies, occupational medicine, and the medical and professional monitoring of employees, and consequently the rules applicable to the single document for the assessment of professional risks (the so called “Document […]

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Breaches of Highway Code with a company vehicule : The employer must disclose identity

Human Resources, Law, Travail, Travel / 2 minutes of reading

We would like to take this opportunity to remind you that since January 1st 2017, when an infringement is committed with a company vehicule, the employer must disclose the identity and the address of the employee who committed the infringement, otherwise the employer will be subject to pay a fine of 750 euros.     –

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Changes to occupational health monitoring procedures in France

Human Resources, Law / 4 minutes of reading

  EMPLOYEES’ HEALTH MONITORING  Since January 1st 2017, hiring medical examinations have been replaced by “informative and preventive visits”, except for employees with a job “at risk” who will benefit from an enhanced individual health monitoring. Furthermore, the involvement of the occupational physician is no longer systematically required.  What changes from January 1st 2017 From

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Secured framework for annual working time arrangements

Human Resources, Law / 4 minutes of reading
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As a reminder, an annual global working day arrangement allows the calculation of working time in days over the year, rather than in hours. The maximum number of worked days is generally 218 days/year (depending on the applicable Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). It is only possible to agree such an arrangement in the employment contract

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A recent change in French Law will modify the individual training entitlement (DIF) of employees as from January 2015…

Human Resources, Law / 3 minutes of reading
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What currently exists? Currently, each employee with more than one year’s service (or four months for short term contracts), acquires an entitlement to a capital of training hours equal to at least 20 hours per year (prorated for part time employees), which can be cumulated over a period of 6 years within a maximum limit

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Annual global working days arrangement of the SYNTEC Collective Bargaining Agreement is back!

Human Resources, Law / 2 minutes of reading
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In a previous newsletter we informed you that the Syntec employer union has announced the opening of negotiations between employer and employee unions for the signature of an amendment to the existing working time agreement, which would secure the usage of “forfait jours” (global working day clause). The negotiators recently came to an agreement which

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HR France Update: Part-Time Employment Contracts

Human Resources, Law / 2 minutes of reading

A recent French law has introduced major modifications in the statutory regime of part-time employment contracts.   I: What are these major changes? ==> All part-time contracts signed as from January 1st 2014 must provide for a minimum working time of 24 hours per week or the equivalent over the month. Only few exceptions to

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