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Newsletter No 66 – June 2014
Summary
Termination of the employment contract
Minor pay cuts are not sufficient grounds for court-ordered termination of the employment contract.
Benefits in kind
Benefits granted to former employees may be discontinued.
Training
Importance of the employer's obligation to provide training.
Civil liberties
Wearing an Islamic headscarf may be used as grounds for dismissal.
CDD (fixed-term employment contracts)
Validity of provisions excluding certain employees from receiving the end-of-contract indemnity for job insecurity (prime de précarité).
Unemployment
Entry into force of the unemployment insurance agreement.
Trial period
New provisions for termination of the trial period.
Newsletter n°65 – May 2014
Summary
Working hours
transfer of the employment contract and the fixed number of days to be worked each year [forfait-jours].
Illness
assessment of the concept of company disorganisation to dismiss an absent employee.
Working hours
nullity of the fixed number of days to be worked each year [forfait-jours] by chartered accountants and statutory auditors.
Termination of the contract of employment
consequences of a resignation during an action for judicial termination
Maternity
starting point of the four weeks of protection.
CHSCT [Occupational Health and Safety Committee]
assessment of the concept of serious risk to make use of the services of an expert.
Working hours
entry into force of the law permitting the donating of rest days to a parent of a seriously ill child.
Works council
clarifications on the regulation applicable to gift vouchers.
Newsletter n°64 – April 2014
Summary
Works council
accountants may ask to see documents relating to other group companies.
Occupational health
conditions of compensation for rejudice of anxiety relating to exposure to asbestos.
Protected employees
starting point of the protection period for employees requesting staff representative elections.
Benefits in kind
company car and sick leave.
Termination of the employment contract
facts justifying termination of the employment contract due to the employer's behaviour.
Site takeover
entry into force of the “Florange” Act.
Portage salarial (system of umbrella companies)
repeal of the provisions of article L. 1251-64 of the French Labour Code as of 1 January 2015.
Newsletter n°63 – March 2014
Summary
Employee representatives
impact of illness on the exercise of the mandate.
Protected-status employee
indemnification in case of termination of the employment contract due to the employer’s behaviour.
Redundancy
scope of exercise of the preferential right to re-hiring
Unfair competition
the preparation of a future competing activity in the course of the employment contract is possible.
Incapacity
further details on redeployment positions.
Mutually agreed termination
negotiating a settlement is possible.
Training and employee representation
coming into force of the law on vocational raining, employment and social democracy
Health and environment
creation of a new alert right.