An evaluation committee has released its report on the
impact of President Macron's 2017 employment law
reforms.
The ‘Macron ordinances' of September 2017
implemented a package of reforms for the President's term in
office in the field of labour law. As soon as they were adopted, an
evaluation committee was appointed to measure, over time, the real
impact of these reforms and their effectiveness.
After four years of implementation, in a report published on 16
December 2021, this committee reported on the lessons identified at
this stage of implementation and on trends in practice.
Three key lessons emerge from this report, set out below.
Shift to collective bargaining
One of the main objectives of the 2017 ordinances was to
accelerate the transfer of labour standards from the law to
collective bargaining (particularly at company level, keeping it as
close to the ‘ground' as possible).
