The government has published five ordinances designed to reform the labour code. Changes include new rules for collective bargaining – including a reduction in the importance of sectoral agreements – as well as updated redundancy regulations and a new scale for unfair dismissal compensation.
New French legislation aims to combat unfair social competition arising from the abuse of posted workers sent by a company from one EU Member State to another. Among other provisions, the new law institutes a system of financial liability to encourage contractors to make sure that treatment of
One of the main pledges of the election campaign of French President François Hollande was a promise to tackle the country’s chronic youth unemployment problem. His government, elected in April 2012, put forward proposals for its Generation Contract, one element of which would be intended to
Social partners signed an agreement on 7 November 2011 with the aim of ensuring job stability in the cash in transit sector and avoiding unfair competition based on salaries and working conditions.
The French government brought in a law on 29 July 2011 [1] to establish a new system to help reintegrate employees into work, who had previously been subject to collective redundancy procedures. It followed an agreement (in French, 743Kb PDF) that was signed by social partners [2] at national level
French law provides an original system of measuring working time for managers. Instead of calculating how many hours they work, managers can have their working time calculated on the basis of the number of days worked per year, regardless of how many hours they work during each day.
In 1989, the French parliament introduced a new form of means-tested general income support called ‘minimum integration income’ (/Revenu minimum d’insertion/, RMI) for people who reside in France and have insufficient financial resources. Students were not eligible to receive these funds, and the
According to Article L1233-4 (in French) [1] of the French Labour Code, an employee can be dismissed on economic grounds only if the employer has made every effort to transfer the employee elsewhere within the company or within the group. However, the French Supreme Court (/Cour de cassation/) has