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Decree enforcing smoking bans in the workplace

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • February 12 2007

As across Europe, France has seen new legislation passed banning smoking in public places

Notice for a pre-dismissal meeting

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • February 12 2007

Article L. 122-14 of the Labour Code stipulates that a pre-dismissal meeting with an employee must not take place less than 5 weekdays after the presentation of the registered or hand-delivered invitation to the employee

France Telecom fails in predatory pricing appeal

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, France
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  • February 2 2007

The Court of First Instance (CFI) has dismissed the appeal lodged by the French telecommunications operator France Telecom (formerly Wanadoo) against the decision of the European Commission concerning predatory pricing in the ADSL internet market

The law for the development of employee profit sharing and shareholding

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • February 12 2007

This law, passed on 14 December 2006, widens the scope of profit sharing and shareholding for employees by implementing a number of new provisions

Commission drops sports financing case against France

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, France
  • -
  • January 26 2007

The European Commission has closed infringement proceedings against France after the French Government modified legislation banning sports clubs from raising capital from the public

The law for the modernisation of labour law dialogue

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • February 12 2007

The bill for the modernisation of labour law dialogue was passed on 17 January 2007

Unfair employment of trainees on internships

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • February 12 2007

A small business which employed 5 trainees on unpaid internships has been fined 25,000 and sentenced to a 6 month suspended prison sentence for undeclared work

France, Ireland and Italy to partially recover energy product tax breaks

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union, France, Ireland, Italy
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  • February 16 2007

The European Commission has ordered France, Ireland and Italy to partially recover tax exemptions on energy products that constitute illegal State aid

Employment contracts with corporate officers

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • February 12 2007

The Cour de Cassation (21 November 2006) has reiterated the fact that an employment contract signed by a corporate officer already in office is void

Implementation of French law on authors' rights: additional penalties for circumventing DRM

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • February 21 2007

The first decree taken in application of the French DADVSI (French Law on “authors' rights and related rights in the information society”) has been published in the French Official Journal on 30 December 2006