Recent news

Latest items of recent news relevant to France as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.

France: New driving restriction

Company vehicle users should note that all vehicles driven into central Paris between the hours of 8am to 8pm on Monday to Friday now have to display a special ‘pollution sticker’ …

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France: Regulating work creep

Organisations with 50 + employees are now subject to a new law that obliges them to negotiate with workers, or their representatives, about being contacted out of normal working hours by phone, email, SMS or other messaging system …

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France: Biometric security data

The French data protection authority (CNIL) has issued two new types of authorizations for use by organisations which use biometric data for personnel security access purposes …

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France: Stringent notification requirements

From October 1st foreign employers operating in France will have to file detailed online returns about all foreign employees seconded to work in their French operations …

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France: Lost in the legal labyrinth

The long-debated Labour law reforms have now been finally pushed though the national assembly and awaits Presidential signature …

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France: Eyes wide shut

The day after the fateful Brexit vote 4,000 UK executives received a letter from the head of the Île-de-France government, Valérie Pécresse, extolling the virtues of Paris as a location for business and its high standard of living …

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France: In with a teaspoon, when a shovel’s not enough

The controversial Labour Bill has now passed through the French national assembly on its second reading – but without a formal vote …

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France: Bill goes to Senate

The controversial labour Bill has now passed through the French national assembly on its second reading – but without a formal vote …

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France: Right to disconnect

The controversial labour reforms currently being debated in the French National Assembly include a ‘right to disconnect’ …

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France: Attempts to relax labour laws met with protests from employees

Where examples of high growth/low unemployment exist they are invariably in countries that offer low levels of job protection and take a minimalist approach to labour laws …

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France: Latest on French Labour Code Reforms

Proposals to reform France’s Labour Code have been met with strong opposition from trade unions, with the result that submission of the draft law to the Cabinet has been postponed until the end of March 2016 …

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France: Bicycle mileage allowance finally implemented

A decree has finally been published in France detailing the conditions under which an employer may provide employees with a bicycle mileage allowance …

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France: Case reminds employers about importance of complying with legal formalities

In a recent case the French Supreme Court highlighted the importance of complying with French statutory obligations with regards to internal company rules …

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France: Airline fined for failure to pay social security payments in France

The latest company falling victim to France’s narrow conception of where a worker is based, is Cathay Pacific …

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France: Labour Code reform to begin with working time

The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, has announced that the reform of the country’s Labour Code will take place over the next two years starting with a reform of working time laws …

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