Recent news

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

France: A special court to set up to handle English-law cases

In a bid to lure financial sector firms to move from the UK to France after Brexit, the French government is proposing to establish a special court operating in the English language to handle disputes related to financial contracts governed by English law …

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France: Plein de bonnes intentions

In a bid to lure financial sector firms to move from the UK to France after Brexit, the French government is proposing to establish a special court operating in the English language to handle disputes related to financial contracts governed by English law …

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France: Government fee to be required for posted workers

Since 2016, if you send any employee to France (even from another EU state) and the employee remains on the home payroll, then you have been required to first check to see if their home country has a social security agreement with France …

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France: Auchan and UNI Global Union sign global agreement

The French major retailer Auchan has just signed a global framework agreement with Union Network International (UNI) …

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France: Joint regional inter-professional commissions

Following the Rebsamen reforms of 2015 the time is fast approaching when employees in small companies will achieve representation …

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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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