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The firm: Flichy Grangé Avocats is a leading employment and labour law firm in France, comprising 27 partners, one consultant, 7 counsels and 50 associates, all specialised in labour law. The team works closely with human resource directors and top management teams which aim at anticipating and maximising potential changes and to benefit from effective advice in court.

The firm’s clients include companies in every area of business, notably industry, financial services, IT, mass-media and telecoms. Services are directed towards major French and international groups, employers’ associations and small and medium businesses, all of which benefit from the firm’s experience and practical advice in managing labour issues on a day-to-day basis. As well as the public sector, French and foreign law firms lacking in-house expertise are also clients.

The firm offers its clients an exclusive legal monitoring service to help them take advantage of new opportunities from case law and law (ie Macron, Rebsamen and El Khomri reforms).

Areas of practice: With nearly 90 lawyers in total, Flichy Grangé Avocats is a pre-eminent team in the employment and labour law market in France. As the area is constantly evolving, the firm offers a daily legal update and analysis by first-rate experts, thus enabling clients to be the first to take advantage of changes in the law or case law as those emerge, or to develop tools suited to deal with whatever issues may arise.

Flichy Grangé Avocats assists in the full range of labour/employment matters. The firm’s reputation is particularly strong in the following:

Health and safety: the practice monitors work-related risks to give clients the best advice on preventive actions, in concert with the employee representatives. The firm assists its clients to prepare for and follow criminal proceedings, before the investigating judge and the criminal courts and in preparing delegations of authority and responsibilities at company/establishment level. The firm can also provide training to companies with regards to health and safety.

International employment/labour: Flichy Grangé Avocats provides counsel to foreign companies seeking to establish themselves in France and to French companies planning to set up business in other countries. The firm advises on all aspects related to employee mobility and business transfers, ie transnational hiring of executives and employees, relocation and expatriation, on a local and an international level.

Restructuring plans/business reorganisation: Flichy Grangé Avocats draws on its experience to address all matters in relation to companies’ restructurings. It provides advice on redundancy plans, how to manage relationships with employee representatives and on collective bargaining agreements. It also represents employers in collective and individual litigation. As far as restructurings are concerned, the firm carries out due diligence in the framework of M&A operations and helps the acquirer in preparing the changes following such an acquisition, in particular regarding remuneration packages and HR policies.

Day-to-day HR-related matters: Flichy Grangé Avocats handles all aspects of industrial relations which include drafting employment contracts, advising on executive compensation agreements, company policies, employer liabilities, workplace safety and healthcare issues, managing termination of employment and negotiating settlement agreements.

Social security/welfare: the firm advises on all aspects related to social security and welfare, including healthcare and pension plans, employee company savings schemes and employee benefits. The firm also provides assistance to companies facing social security audits.

Employment/labour litigation: the firm handles all kinds of litigation connected with employment including wrongful discharge and employment termination claims; defending cases in employment courts and tribunals; work-related accidents and illnesses; and collective disputes arising from restructurings. The firm also handles arbitration and mediation proceedings between the management and employee representatives. It handles all litigation involving the main French public welfare body.

Collective agreements, collective bargaining and working time: assisting with the negotiation of national collective agreements or agreements at different levels within a company or establishment is a complex process governed by specific rules outlined in the French Employment Code.

The numerous topics that are mandatorily required to be the subject of collective negotiations (negotiations with regard to salaries, the news negotiations from the employment preservation Act, annual and multi-annual employment projections, equality of women and men, in working life, employee savings schemes working life conditions, collective performance etc.),the “social” challenges they represent and the way the various collective standards fit together justify the existence of this practice which is run by partners with a high level of experience in this area.

As setting working time and in general all questions in relation with work organisation are very often based on collective bargaining, branch-level or company-level agreements, this team has quite naturally developed specific know-how in helping companies to define the best arrangement for them, both from an economic and operational standpoint, favouring simplicity and flexibility.

Business ethics, CSR, discrimination, harassment, employees’ right to privacy, data privacy: companies are faced with growing regulation and enforcement with regards to business ethics, CSR, diversity & inclusion, and data privacy as well as rising stakeholder expectations (NGOs, consumers, candidates, etc.). This requires them to increase their vigilance in these areas and to put into place specific policies and programs.

We namely assist clients in identifying their priorities through anti-corruption (Sapin II), human rights (Vigilance) and data privacy (GDPR) due diligence and assessments, drafting internal policies (Code of Ethics, anti-corruption Code of Conduct, Human Rights policy, anti-discrimination/sexual and psychological harassment policies, IT charters, social media policies, conflict of interests/gift and entertainment registers, supplier codes of conduct). The Practice can also carry out ethics and compliance acquisition due diligence and advise on corporate reporting requirements. Further services include day-to-day support of Ethics, Compliance and CSR teams, management and employee training, whistleblowing lines and internal investigations. The Practice also assist clients in case of legal proceedings or regulatory controls (in particular Labour Inspectorate, Défenseur des Droits – French Ombudsman, CNIL – Data Protection Agency).

Training policy & initiatives, work/study contracts, annual review, financing: On a day-to-day basis, we advise and represent employers, training entities and agencies, and trade-branches. We accompany businesses in the elaboration of their training policies, in the implementation of their career-evolution interviews, or in the negotiation of collective agreements concerning the organization of these interviews as well as the employer’s contribution to the employee’s personal training account (CPF). We also assist the “OPCO” training agencies undergoing changes to their legal or organizational status.

Public service/state-owned companies The state-owned companies category includes entities which may have a number of different legal forms (public industrial and commercial companies (EPIC), limited companies of which the share capital is partly state-owned, semi-public companies, etc.).
The rules that apply to their employees vary even more. Depending on the case, their staff members may be civil servants, have specific employment status, or be governed, entirely or essentially, by private employment law and collective bargaining agreements. The State-Owned Companies practice has been set up to deal with all these issues, which often involve a mix of administrative and private law. The practice is run by two partners with a high level of experience in this field.

Atypical and/or new forms of work: new forms of work have grown over the past fifty years as companies search for the right balance between flexibility and risk management.

The different types of temporary work contracts, including the “long-term temporary contracts”, “Professional Employment Organisations” (PEO) whose legal and collective bargaining framework have recently been defined, and the development of independent workers’ platforms notably illustrate this trend.

Having recourse to these new types of work requires a thorough knowledge of the various types of employment and independent statues available, expertise regarding each scheme’s characteristics and risk profile.

Comprehensive employment legal expertise (covering labour law, criminal law and social security law) is required in order to both advise and litigate these matters, as is regular and practical knowledge of the relevant supervisory authorities (in case of administrative sanctions in the context of secondment, for instance).

This dedicated practice advises companies, groups, temporary work agencies, professional employment organizations, interim management firms, independent worker platforms, employment bodies, and professional unions. It has developed a cutting-edge know-how of all labour and criminal law issues and provides appropriate risk management advice.

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  Published: January 2023

  Authors: Camille Ventejou Romain Guichard

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