Employers are relieved! One of the most talked-about provisions of the Macron ordinances has been confirmed as valid by the French Court of Cassation (Supreme Court).

What Do You Need To Think About When You Consider Dismissing An Employee In France ? (Video)

This decision overturns a 2009 decision, in which an appellate court decided that personal data processing that enables the employer to monitor employee email did not disqualify the evidence.

An HRD called an employee to warn him that he was going to receive his official dismissal letter. The employee then challenged his dismissal, stating that he had been dismissed...

An employee dismissed for economic reasons, following the transfer of his employment contract, must be able to benefit from the measures provided for in the social plan being drawn up in the absorbing company.

Les mauvais résultats d'une campagne d'influence ne justifient pas la résiliation du contrat.

Emmanuel Macron views liberalizing French employment law as a priority. To achieve that effect, he plans to amplify the actions initiated in 2015 (the Rebsamen and Macron laws) and in 2016 (the El Khomri law).

An employee was dismissed for serious misconduct for having sent an email from her professional email account to other employees.

French president Emmanuel Macron, true to his election commitment, has published decrees seeking to implement major liberalising reforms of French labour law.

The Paris and Reims courts of appeal are expected to take a position on the Macron scale on 25 September 2019.

The government has issued these ordinances, and they are likely to be adopted around the end of September.

This week’s decision, dated 10 May 2012), concerned an employee dismissed for economic reasons who claimed unfair dismissal on the grounds that his employer had not complied with its obligation to offer him alternative positions.

In the very recent decision, dated 27 March 2012, a member of the aircraft crew working for an airline company was dismissed for serious misconduct because he took drugs while he was on stopover between two flights.

One of the Macron ordinances of September 2017 set up a compensation scheme in the event of dismissal without a real and serious cause

The 'Macron scale' used in France to calculate compensation for unfairly dismissed employees has been ruled compatible with the International Labour Organization Convention on Termination of Employment.

The French Cour de Cassation has ruled that employers can only prevent employees from wearing visible signs of their political, philosophical or religious affiliation in the workplace

As President Emmanuel Macron had promised, major employment reforms are under way in France and the related ordinances have been published on August 31, 2017, after ...

With respect to dismissals on disciplinary grounds, the one-month period for notifying an employee of his/her dismissal is counted from date to date.

The Air France cabin crew dress code permitted women who had braided hair to wear it tied up in a chignon. This option was not offered for men, who were required to wear their hair neatly...

In a decision issued on June 29, 2022[1], the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) applied for the first time the principle of "contaminating ground for dismissal" in the context...