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Professional assessments must be based on objective and relevant criteria

Human Resources, Law, Travail / 1 minute of reading

    The French High Court regularly reiterates that employee evaluation methods must be based on criteria that are precise, objective and relevant to the intended purpose.  Evaluation of behavioural skills In a recent decision, it has applied this principle to the field of behavioural skills. Thus, the criteria of ”optimism”, “honesty” and ”common sense” […]

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Paid vacation leave must be included in the calculation of overtime

employees, Financial measures, goverment, Human Resources, Law, Remuneration, Travail / 1 minute of reading

  The French High Court of Justice made another reversal in its case law on September 10th, 2025. Until now, the French High Court (Court of Cassation) considered that paid leave was not equivalent to actual working time and therefore did not have to be taken into account when calculating the threshold for triggering overtime.

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Sickness during paid vacation leave: new rule

employees, Financial measures, goverment, Human Resources, Law, Travail / 2 minutes of reading

    Following a formal warning notified by the European Commission to France, the French High Court of Justice made a reversal in its case law on September 10th, 2025. Until now, the French High Court (Court of Cassation) applied the rule of the first event giving rise to absence: if sick leave occurred during

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Single Document of Occupational Risks Assessment – New update Obligations and Heatwave Risk Prevention

employees, Human Resources, Law, Travail, Uncategorized / 2 minutes of reading

Single Document of Occupational Risks Assessment – New update Obligations and Heatwave Risk Prevention Effective July 1, 2025 Dear Clients, In response to the increasing frequency of intense heatwaves and pursuant to Decree No. 2025-482 dated May 27, 2025, employers are now required to include heat-related risks in the Single Document of Occupational Risk Assessment (“DUERP”).

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The importance of providing French employees with a French version of the objectives on which their variable compensation is based

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

The French Labor Code is quite clear: any document containing obligations for employees or provisions that they need to know in order to perform their job must be written in French (article L. 1321-6 of the French Labor Code). This applies to employment contracts, any amendments thereto and any document setting employees’ targets on which

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Update on the Workload Monitoring Interview for employees with a working time arrangement in days under the collective bargaining agreement applicable to the personnel of Technical Studies Offices, Consultant engineers Offices and Consulting Companies (SYNTEC)

employees, Human Resources, Law, Regulation, Travail / 1 minute of reading

As a reminder, an annual global working time arrangement in days is only available to employees meeting certain criteria, and its validity is subject to several strict conditions, such as the obligation for the employer to organize a meeting with the employee once a year to discuss his/her workload (which must be reasonable), the organization

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Value-sharing in small and medium-sized businesses with regular profits : A new obligation under a French experimental scheme

employees, Financial measures, Human Resources, Law, Remuneration, Small companies, Travail / 3 minutes of reading

For financial years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, companies with at least 11 employees that are not obliged to set up a profit-sharing bonus (i.e. mainly companies with between 11 and 50 employees) will be required to set up a value-sharing scheme as soon as they achieve a net taxable profit equal to

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VARIABLE REMUNERATION: Employers must prove that the targets are achievable.

employees, Human Resources, Law, Payroll, Remuneration, Travail / 2 minutes of reading

[credit image Ricarda Mölck de Pixabay] In a recent decision of the French High Court “Cour of Cassation” on 15 November 2023, employers were reminded of the need to demonstrate the achievability of the targets set for each financial year when paying the variable part of an employee’s salary. In this case, the employee received, in addition

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The new obligations of an employer offering an indefinite-term contract to an employee on a fixed-term or temporary contract

employees, Human Resources, Law, Travail / 3 minutes of reading

[Credit Image : Photo de Gabrielle Henderson sur Unsplash] Since January 1st, 2024, employers (or user companies in the case of temporary work) offering an indefinite-term contract (“CDI” in French) at the end of a fixed-term contract (“CDD” in French) (or temporary work contract called “intérim” in French) have a new dual obligation: – to

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Occupational Medical Service in France

employees, Human Resources, Law, Travail / 4 minutes of reading

[Credit Image : National Cancer Institute from Unsplash] Employers in France must take measures to secure their employees’ mental and physical Health at work. This is not an obligation of results but means. As part of this obligation, whenever a new employee is hired in France, a medical monitoring exam must be organized by the

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