Employment Alert - December 2017

The legal framework of teleworking has been modified (Macron Order No. 2017-1387 on the predictability and securing of employment relations).

The reform of the legal framework of teleworking, effective since September 24, 2017, is the opportunity to review your teleworking policy to ensure its compliance with the new rules.

As of now, except in the event of the occasional appeal, teleworking is implemented by a collective agreement or, failing that, as part of a chart established by the employer following the advice of the new social and economic committee.

This agreement (or this chart) must notably specify:

• the conditions governing the change of status to teleworking and back to a non-teleworking employment contract;