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Partial Activity and Covid-19
Last week, we wrote two synthesis of ordinances taken by the French government, on 25th March 2020, related to the social law and notably to partial activity. Since then, new texts adapted the partial activity scheme. Thus, we let you discover the input of these texts...
Coronavirus – decoding of the measures announced by the government
Contents 1. Closure of certain establishmentsThe orders of March 14, 15 and 16, 2020 providing various measures to limit the spread of covid-19 list the establishments concerned by the ban on the opening to the public. In particular, the following are covered by this...
Can the Coronavirus justify the non-fulfilment by companies of their contractual obligations?
The Coronavirus, also known as “COVID-19”, will be considered as a case of Force Majeure for companies for all public procurement of the State, declared the Minister for Economic affairs and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, on February 28, 2020. What does French law provide?...
Telework: Relevant adjustment measure during the Coronavirus period
At the dawn of the transition to Stage 3 of the Coronavirus action plan, which implies in particular, further restrictions on the population movements, telework appears to be one of the recommended solutions. Thus, in France, since 2017, it is very simple to implement...
Infographics: the gender equality index in companies
The gender equality index in companies hiring 50 to 250 employees. These companies must count and publish their score to the index before each 1st of March of each year, starting on 1st March 2020. By Anne-Lise Puget and Nathalie Cerqueira. #sociallaw
The court of appeal of Reims validates
Since the Cour de Cassation issued two legal opinions on July 17 2019 validating the Macron scale (link to our July 2019 Social Newsletter), this first Court of Appeal ruling handed down since surprises us yet again by taking a third standpoint! The ruling of the...
Macron Scale: The saga continues!
We announced last week the two opinions handed down by the French Supreme Court on July 17, 2019 (read the Newsletter) approving the scales of Article L.1235-3 of the French Labour Code. End of the controversy? Absolutely not!! By a deliberate act of resistance, the...
Newsletter Employment of July 2019
Please find below the July 2019 Newsletter by the Employment law team of Bersay & Associés. Read the Newsletter
What internet do we want? The questions raised by the French cyber hate proposed law
Proud to share Claire Poirson’s contribution, IP/IT/Data Protection partner at Bersay & Associés, who gives her views and expertise on the French cyber hate bill in the Huffingtonpost! Read the article here (in French):...
The Macron scale approved by the French supreme Court (“Cour de cassation”) !
We had been awaiting this for several months now. The Cour de cassation issued at last its opinion on the validity of the Macron scale (article L. 1235-3 of the French Labour Code) which implements a ceiling for the compensation of an unlawfully dismissed employee....