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The French Data Protection Authority CNIL has fined two Carrefour subsidiaries a total of €3 …

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What happens when an employer discovers that one of their employees has breached commercial confidentiality through a social media posting? How does an employee’s rights to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights relate to a company’s right to protect its trade secrets under statutory and contractual law? Recently, the Court of Cassation in France had to consider the fundamental privacy rights of an employee who had posted details of their firm’s latest clothing collection on Facebook …

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The online portal for UK nationals to register for French residence permits has now opened …

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Government support for employers during the ongoing pandemic enters a new phase from 1st November 2020 …

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The French President has announced that paid parental leave will double to 28 days from 1st July next year and fathers be required to take a week off work on the birth of their child …

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A trades union for the plastics sector “Plastalliance” has earned the enmity of other unions in the sector by concluding 51 company collective performance agreements (CPA) …

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Employees who care for elderly, ill, or disabled dependants may now (Wf 1 …

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Foreign companies operating in France please take note …

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Someone sharing a home with a person vulnerable to COVID-19 may no longer benefit from the “exceptional partial activity scheme” (except in the departments of Guyana and Mayotte) …

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If an employer wishes to make an individual employee redundant, they must follow the strict procedures set for all forms of dismissal …

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Daily reports exist from all over the country of violence against those seeking to enforce the wearing of face masks, especially on public transport and retail outlets …

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One of the principal French institutions for employers to avoid at all costs, is the Data Protection Authority, CNIL …

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The DUERP in France is a single document that must be maintained by an employer and contains a complete set of identified occupational risks in the workplace …

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The CSE election season is upon us, and in France CSE elections are held in two rounds …

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Although the government claimed to have withdrawn its controversial pension reform proposals earlier this winter, Prime Minister Jean Castex has backtracked and now claims that negotiations are just postponed …

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