Severance pay: impact of serious misconduct during the notice period
“If the right to severance pay arises on the date on which the dismissal is notified, the assessment of the amount of the severance pay is made taking into account seniority at the expiry of the contract. This results...
Obligation to employ disabled workers: new rules from January 1, 2020
LAW n° 2018-771 of September 5, 2018 for the freedom to choose one's professional future, known as the Avenir law, reformed the obligation to employ disabled workers (OETH), with the aim of increasing the rate of e ...
So-called Macron scales validated by the Court of Cassation
In an opinion delivered on July 17, 2019, the Court of Cassation considered that the scales provided for in article L. 1235-3 of the Labor Code, known as the Macron scale, were not contrary to international conventions and treaties, in ...
Acknowledgment of the termination of the employment contract and reform of contract law
According to established case law, the employee can take note of the termination of his employment contract due to breaches of which he blames his employer. Seized by the employee, the judge must then rule on the imputability of...
Remember to explicitly waive the application of the non-competition clause!
Paying a contractual severance indemnity of an amount much higher than the legal severance indemnity in no way protects the employee from additional requests, the judgment of the Court of Cassation of February 6, 2019...
Brexit – the fate of British nationals present on French territory
March 29, 2019, the day of an event that will undoubtedly mark a turning point in the history of the European Union, the one called Brexit. It is indeed on this date that the two-year period provided for in Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union since the United Kingdom notified its intention to...