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Les mauvais résultats d'une campagne d'influence ne justifient pas la résiliation du contrat. (Video)

Les mauvais résultats d'une campagne d'influence ne justifient pas la résiliation du contrat.

France Employment

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Influxio Avocats

L'accord de performance collective  est un outil très performant

Il est fréquent d'entendre que le code du travail n'est pas adapté aux entreprises de petite taille ou de taille moyenne et que sa rigidité et sa complexité sont plus sources de pénalisation...

France Law Performance

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Bignon Lebray

Licenciement disciplinaire : attention au point de départ du délai de notification en cas de report de l'entretien préalable

La Cour de cassation, dans un arrêt rendu le 22 janvier 2025, effectue un rappel important concernant le délai de notification d'un licenciement disciplinaire lorsque l'entretien préalable est reporté...

France Employment

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Herald

Faits tirés de la vie privée : quand l'employeur se fait enfumer

L'employeur peut-il trouver dans un fait relevant de la vie privée du salarié un motif de licenciement ? La réponse sur le principe est assurément affirmative mais la voie est étroite.

France Employment

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Herald

Une pression par dépit amoureux peut justifier un licenciement disciplinaire pour manquement à l'obligation de sécurité

France Employment

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Herald

L'indemnisation par le juge administratif de l'agent public évincé irrégulièrement du service

France Employment

Cornet Vincent Segurel

Letter Of Dismissal: Absence Of A Precise Date For The Acts Of Which The Employee Is Accused

France Employment

Cornet Vincent Segurel

Rupture Fautive Des Pourparlers : Quel Préjudice Réparable ?

France Employment

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Haas Avocats

Can A Hidden Workplace Affair Lead To Dismissal?

France Employment

IL

Ius Laboris

An Advance Warning Can Render A Dismissal Unfair

France Employment

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L&E Global

Labour and Employment Comparative Guide

France Employment

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Factorhy Avocats

Dismissal Of An Employee For Making Racist Or Xenophobic Comments In A Private Context Is Deemed Unfair

France Employment

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L&E Global

Do's And Dont's - Trial Period

France Employment

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L&E Global

Licenciements pour motif économique : Attention à la détermination et à la fixation des critères d'ordre de licenciement

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Sophia: The AI That Gives Your Research A Competitive Edge (Video)

France Technology

innosabi

Déplafonnement du loyer renouvelé : la Cour de cassation réaffirme la portée de principe directeurs

France Real Estate

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Bignon Lebray

Le DPO, un atout stratégique et économique reconnu par la CNIL

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Haas Avocats

L'actualité juridique numérique de la semaine – 13 octobre 2025

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Haas Avocats

Les dérives de l'IA sur Vinted : photos truquées et arnaques

France Technology

HA

Haas Avocats

Dismissals On Economic Grounds: Be Careful When Establishing And Applying The Criteria To Determine The Order Of Dismissals

In two rulings handed down on January 18, 2023, the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) recalled that while the judge cannot substitute him/herself for the employer...

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Employers Cannot Prevent Men Having A Hairstyle Allowed For Women

The Air France cabin crew dress code permitted women who had braided hair to wear it tied up in a chignon. This option was not offered for men, who were required to wear their hair neatly...

France Employment

IL

Ius Laboris

The Specific Compensation Due To An Employee In Case Of Void Dismissal Can Be Reduced By The Judge Only If The Employer Expressly So Requests

In August 2022, we commented a ruling of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) which held that in case of unsubstantiated abuse of a fundamental freedom relied upon to justify...

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Minoration des indemnités en cas de licenciement nul : l'employeur doit le demander expressément

Dans notre actualité du mois d'août dernier, nous revenions sur une décision de la Cour de cassation précisant qu'en cas d'abus non avéré d'une liberté fondamentale par un salarié, son...

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Dismissal On Disciplinary Grounds: Beware Of The Timeline For Notification Of The Dismissal

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

The Unlawfulness Of A Ground For Dismissal "Contaminates" The Other Grounds For Dismissal

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Unfair Dismissal: Green Light For The ‘Macron Scale'

France Employment

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Ius Laboris

French Cour De Cassation Validates The "Macron Scale"

France Employment

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Mayer Brown

Employment Contract Under Foreign Law Performed And Terminated In France: How To Manage The Conflict Of Laws?

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Additional Requirement Concerning The Employer's Redeployment Obligation When An Employee Is Declared Unfit For Work: This Obligation Must Be Fulfilled With Loyalty!

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Game, Set And Match For The "Macron Scale"

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Jeu, Set Et Match Pour Les « Barèmes Macron »

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Change In The Employee's Working Conditions : Beware Of Abuse

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Changement des conditions de travail du salarié : Attention à l'abus de l'employeur

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Game, Set And Match For The "Macron Scale"

In a ruling dated December 15, 2021, the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) overturned the decision of a Court of Appeals that had awarded an employee compensation for dismissal without real...

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Jeu, Set Et Match Pour Les « Barèmes Macron »

Par une décision du 15 décembre 2021, la Cour de cassation a censuré une Cour d'appel qui avait accordé à un salarié une indemnisation pour licenciement sans cause réelle et sérieuse, dépassant les « barèmes Macron ».

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Change In The Employee's Working Conditions : Beware Of Abuse

The change of an employee's place of work at the same time as the implementation of a lay-off plan constitutes an abuse of the employer's power of direction.

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Changement des conditions de travail du salarié : Attention à l'abus de l'employeur

Le changement de lieu de travail d'un salarié concomitamment au projet de mise en place d'un plan de sauvegarde à l'emploi caractérise un abus de l'employeur dans le cadre de son pouvoir de direction.

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Terminating The Employment Relationship In France: What Do Employers Need To Know?

France Employment

VA

Vivien & Associes

Le Co-emploi Dans Un Groupe : Une Nouvelle Définition Pour Une Situation Exceptionnelle

Par un arrêt du 25 novembre 2020, la Cour de cassation réaffirme le caractère exceptionnel du co-emploi en donnant une nouvelle définition de ses éléments constitutifs.

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Employees' Freedom Of Religion And Ban On Wearing A Beard

Does an employer who dismisses for serious misconduct an employee working as security consultant for a company providing security and defense services to governments

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

‘Neutral' Appearance Requirement For Employees Gets A Conditional Green Light In France

The French Cour de Cassation has ruled that employers can only prevent employees from wearing visible signs of their political, philosophical or religious affiliation in the workplace

France Employment

IL

Ius Laboris

Can Employers Dismiss Employees For Actions In Their Private Lives?

A video in which employees of the French company ‘le Slip Français' were shown behaving offensively at a private party raises questions about how and whether employers can discipline ...

France Employment

IL

Ius Laboris

Macron Scale Of Damages For Unfair Dismissal: The Lower French Industrial Tribunals Strike Back

France Employment

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Reed Smith (Worldwide)

La validation du barème Macron par la Cour de cassation

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

The Cour de Cassation Approves Macron's Scale For The Determination Of Damages

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Recent Case Law | Challenges To The Mandatory Indemnity Scale For Unfair Dismissals

France Employment

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Flichy Grangé Avocats

French Supreme Court Deems Enforceable The So-Called "Macron Scale" Providing For Capped Damages In Case Of Unfair Dismissal

France Employment

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August Debouzy

Clarity At Last In French Unfair Dismissal Cases

France Employment

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Squire Patton Boggs LLP

Is Paris Burning? France Considers Whether Damages For Employee Dismissals Should Be Capped

France Employment

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart

La résistance des juges face au barème Macron

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Judges' Resistance To Macron's Scale For The Determination Of Damages

France Employment

SA

Soulier Avocats

Capped Damages At Risk In France?

France Employment

MB

Mayer Brown

Top 10 Challenges Of Doing Business In France

France Commercial

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TMF Group BV

Do's & Don'ts | This Month: Handling An Employee's Resignation

France Employment

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Flichy Grangé Avocats

What Do You Need To Think About When You Consider Dismissing An Employee In France ? (Video)

France Employment

FG

Flichy Grangé Avocats

New Ordinances Bring In President Macron's Reforms

France Employment

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart

Social Reforms Announced By Emmanuel Macron's Government

France Employment

JD

Jones Day

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Influxio Avocats

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William Fry

Recent EAT Ruling Focuses On Managing Long Term Absence In The Workforce (Audio Content)

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Matheson

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