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Obligation to employ disabled workers: new rules from January 1, 2020
Law No. 2018-771 of September 5, 2018, for the freedom to choose one's professional future, known as the Future Law, reformed the obligation to employ disabled workers (OETH), with the objective of increasing the rate of...
The SAS (simplified joint-stock company) has definitively become the most attractive corporate form following the reform of statutory auditing!
The PACTE Law (Law No. 2019-486 of May 22, 2019) profoundly reformed the statutory auditing regime for simplified joint-stock companies (SAS), thereby further increasing the attractiveness of this corporate form. It was quickly supplemented by...
The so-called Macron scales have been validated by the Court of Cassation
In an opinion issued on July 17, 2019, the Court of Cassation held that the pay scales provided for in Article L. 1235-3 of the French Labor Code, known as the Macron scales, were not contrary to international conventions and treaties, in that...
Acknowledgment of termination of the employment contract and reform of contract law
According to established case law, an employee may terminate their employment contract due to breaches they attribute to their employer. Upon application by the employee, the judge must then rule on the attribution of...
Regulation of commercial relations between professionals – New provisions of the order of April 24, 2019
On April 25, 2019, Ordinance No. 2019-359, recasting Title IV of Book IV of the Commercial Code relating to transparency, restrictive practices of competition, and other prohibited practices, was published in the Journal of...
Consider explicitly waiving the application of the non-competition clause!
Paying a negotiated severance payment significantly higher than the statutory severance pay does not in any way preclude the employee from making further claims, as confirmed by the French Supreme Court ruling of February 6, 2019...