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France introduces radical labour market reforms

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • May 17 2013

On 14 May 2013, the French Senate passed a controversial new law giving employers greater flexibility to respond to changing economic conditions

Third-party funding of arbitration in France

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • March 27 2013

Introduction Arbitration has gradually become the most favoured method of resolving international commercial disputes. However, the cost involved in

Employee appraisals: beware of using behavioural criteria

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • October 21 2011

On 21 September the Toulouse Court of Appeal held that an appraisal process which was based partly on behavioural criteria was illegal

The French DPA issues its guidelines on cloud computing

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • June 28 2012

Since launching its consultation in October 2011, France’s Commission nationale de l’ informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has bided its time in issuing its long awaited Guidelines

Dismissal for loss of a driving licence is unfair in France if the decision to disqualify is reversed

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • April 9 2013

French case law has already established that the withdrawal of an employee's driving licence can in certain circumstances constitute a justified

French firms to pay dividend bonuses to employees

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • October 19 2011

Under new legislation certain French companies will now have to pay bonuses to their employees if they declare larger than average dividends to their shareholders

French Supreme Court opens floodgates for discrimination claims

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • August 8 2012

The French Supreme Court recently held that an employer had unlawfully discriminated against an employee where it was unable to provide an adequate explanation for the apparent slowdown in his career progression

Service of notice in France a triumph of form over substance

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • August 15 2012

Employment relationships in France are highly regulated, especially when it comes to dismissals

Court judgments order construction industry companies to pay the SNCF between 123 and 129 million in compensation for concerted practices

  • Squire Sanders
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  • France
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  • May 19 2009

The Paris administrative court has rendered a total of 34 judgments ordering construction industry companies such as Bouygues Construction, Eiffage and Vinci to pay the SNCF between 123 and 129 million in compensation for damages it suffered from a price fixing agreement

Commission authorises a further 2.45 billion capital injection for Caisse d’Épargne and Banque Populaire

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, France
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  • May 11 2009

The European Commission has authorised, under the EC Treaty rules on State aid, a further 2.45 billion capital injection into the institution to be created by the merger between the Caisse d’Épargne and Banque Populaire groups