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New tax credit for competitiveness and employment (CICE)

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • February 26 2013

The third amended Finance Act for 2012 set up a new tax credit "credit for competitiveness and employment" - "Crédit d'impôt pour la

Taking annual leave without the employer's authorisation is not necessarily misconduct

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • October 9 2007

Labour code provisions stipulate that the employer define dates on which its employees may take annual leave within the annual holiday period

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

Isolated fact may be sexual harassment even if it takes place outside the workplace

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • May 16 2012

A manager (the director of a bank) had set up a professional meeting with one of his female employees outside regular work hours in a hotel room

Collective redundancy thresholds: only employees based in France are taken into account

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • February 19 2009

Companies of at least 50 employees who make 10 or more employees redundant on economic grounds within a period of 30 days are required to implement a social plan known as a "plan de sauvegarde de l'emploi."

An employee cannot be dismissed for false accusations of harassment and bullying, unless it can be shown that the claims were made in bad faith

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • June 15 2009

The Cour de Cassation has confirmed the full force of anti-retaliation rules under French law which apply to victims of harassment, holding that an employee who brought a false claim against their employer for bullying and harassment cannot be disciplined, dismissed, or suffer discriminatory measures, in particular in terms of compensation, training, redeployment, promotion or renewal of their employment contract, for having claimed to have suffered harassment, despite the fact that the claims made could not be substantiated

Companies that issue dividends must pay their employees a profit-share bonus

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • October 19 2011

The amended Social Security Financing Law, adopted by Parliament on July 13 2011, entered into force on July 29 2011

Courts provide clarification on paid holiday

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, France
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  • July 18 2012

Recent judgments passed down by the European Court of Justice and the Supreme Court could have a significant impact on French employment laws, specifically on the accrual of paid holiday, the effect of sick leave on holiday entitlement and the obligation to ensure that employees are able to take paid holiday

Sex, lies and employees: pornography in the workplace

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
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  • December 7 2011

Under French law, employers must tolerate employees' reasonable personal use of IT systems

French Employment Minister’s report challenges CNIL’s position on whistleblowing

  • Bird & Bird
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  • France
  • -
  • June 28 2007

On 6 March 2007, a report commissioned by the French Employment Minister, Gérard Larcher, was published