According to Article L.1221-20 of the French Labor Code, the trial period allows the employer to assess the employee's skills in the job, particularly in light of their experience, and the employee to determine whether the position suits them.

According to the report unveiled on March 20, 2025, the Assurance Maladie identified and stopped fraud totaling 628 million euros in 2024, an increase of 35% compared to the previous year. According to Thomas Fatôme, General Manager of the Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (Cnam), this figure reflects "an intensified mobilization."

Starting May 1, 2025, the employer contribution rate to unemployment insurance will be reduced from 4.05% to 4.00%.

A draft bill was submitted to the National Assembly on 4 June 2025 to allow employees to request up to five salary advances per month.

A decree dated April 18, 2025, states that starting October 1st, workers assigned to positions requiring driving authorization or electrical certification will no longer benefit from enhanced individual health monitoring.

The Minister for Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, announced that the government has set a target of recovering €15 billion from tax and social security fraud in 2026, after having collected €13 billion out of the €20 billion detected in 2024.

Pour rappel, le demandeur d'emploi inscrit à France Travail définit dans son contrat d'engagement, les éléments constitutifs de l'ORE qu'il s'engage à accepter.

€750 – This is the mandatory lump-sum contribution that employers must pay towards funding apprenticeship contracts aimed at high levels of qualification.

In its report published on 26 May, the Court of Auditors outlines a list of proposals to restore the financial balance of social security. Among these proposals is the reduction of exemptions...

The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal offered some crucial guidance on the special income tax exemption applying to impatriate employees in France in a recent decision issued March 16, 2021.

€21.4 billion – this is the amount of savings proposed by the Court of Auditors in its report dated April 14, 2025, equivalent to the amount needed to offset the funding of new measures and to comply with the planned trajectory of ONDAM (National Objective for Healthcare Insurance Spending).

In response to the increasing use of precarious contracts in businesses, the labour inspectorate has decided to act starting in June 2025, by launching a nationwide inspection campaign to tackle abuses related to fixed-term contracts, temporary work, and apprenticeships.

In a circular published on May 1, 2025 (Circular No. 2025-05), Unédic clarified the consequences of the reduction in the employer unemployment insurance contribution on the modulation system that applies in certain sectors of activity.

En una reciente sentencia dictada el 16 de marzo, la Sala de lo Social del Tribunal Supremo se pronunció nuevamente sobre el régimen de prueba de la petición de pago de horas...

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