[Credit image Gerd Altmann from Pixabay] As a reminder, the standard working week in France is 35 hours, but different working time arrangements are available under certain conditions. One of these working time arrangements is the global working day arrangement, whereby the employee’s working time is not counted in hours but in days. The validity of such […]
[Credit image vectorjuice from Freepik] In a recent case law, the French High Court held that when the home-to-customer travel time performed by a mobile employee meets the legal definition of actual working time, this time must be paid as such. In French law, the definition of “actual working time” is the time during
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[Credit image Gerd Altmann from Pixabay] In line with its policy of full employment, the French government has temporarily reintroduced the possibility of hiring an employee on a fixed-term contract to replace several absent employees in the company. This multi-replacement contract can be used between April 13th 2023 and April 13th 2025 and only for
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Credit image : Drazen Zigic picture on Freepik A new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) will apply to all companies that are in the scope of the Metal industry CBA as of January 1, 2024. It will replace over 70 regional or local collective agreements in order to align the rights of all employees in the
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[Credit mage Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay] In our previous newsletter we had informed you that the new “Labour Market” law published on December 22nd, 2022, created a new article L. 1237-1-1 in the French Labour Code. This new article provides that an employee who voluntarily abandons his/her job and does not return to work once
[Credit Image Gerd Altmann from Pixabay] As a reminder, any employer who sponsors a non-EU citizen to work in France or who welcomes an non-EU citizen employee temporarily seconded by a company not established in France, is subject to a tax when the foreign employee first enters France or when he or she is first
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[Image Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay] The new “Labour Market” law published on December 22nd, 2022, created a new article L. 1237-1-1 in the French Labour Code. From now on, an employee who voluntarily abandons his/her job and does not return to work once having been given formal notice by the employer to justify his/her absence
Abandoning the job is resigning! Continue 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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As a reminder, the collective and mandatory insurance schemes (healthcare, death & disability and, optionally, the supplementary pension plans) can be implemented by companies either via a Referendum, or a Collective Agreement, or an Employer Unilateral Decision (EUD). The schemes implemented by EUD require a special attention in the coming weeks, as new legal requirements
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A new scheme of partial activity (or furlough) is implemented in France. Its objective is to ensure employment within companies facing long-term reduction in activity which does not compromise their continuity and who need the financial support from the Government for a temporary period. It is different from the specific partial activity scheme implemented to
