Foreward by Andrew Chilvers Sometimes events can be so unprecedented that even the canniest business people fail to comprehend what’s happening until it’s too late. The COVID-19 “coronavirus” crisis is one such event. Businesses across the world have been plunged into shock dealing with the fall out of lockdowns, plummeting revenues and sales, unpaid bills […]
If the Labor code does not impose on an employer to conduct an internal investigation when an employee reports to them the existence of a risk situation (discrimination, psychological or sexual harassment, gender-based wrongdoings, etc.) the circumstances often compel them to do so, all the more since a decision recently rendered by the French Supreme […]
Sometimes events can be so unprecedented that even the canniest business people fail to comprehend what’s happening until it’s too late. The COVID-19 “coronavirus” crisis is one such event. Businesses […]
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Litigation dates and deadlines expired during the health emergency period in France are fully adapted due to the Covid-19 epidemic. A prescription extends those who end between March 12, 2020 and 1 month after the end of the state of health emergency, that is, until June 24, 2020. The provisions are as follows: barring exceptions, […]
Nicolas Flachet von Campe of Nicolas Flachet von Campe met with Rebecca Torrey of The Torrey Firm for lunch in Paris back in February. Nicolas is IR Global’s exclusive Wills & Estates member in France, and Rebecca is IR Global’s exclusive Employment Law (Corporate) member in California. Thank you for sharing this photo with us! If you have any photos of member meetings […]
This memo aims to give an overview of the main provisional measures taken by the French government in order to deal with the Covid-19 crisis and in support of the French Economy. The Government has been empowered to promulgate Orders by the Emergency Law n°2020-290 of 23 March 2020 (delegated legislation), which establishes the state […]
PHYSICAL INCAPACITY: Details relating to receiving one’s salary a month after the occupational doctor has given their opinion. Article L. 1226-4 §1 of the Labor code provides that “when, on expiry of a one-month period starting on the date of the medical examination of pre-return to work, the employee who is declared incapable of working is […]
Nicolas Flachet von Campe of Nicolas Flachet von Campe recently met with Pierre Vermeire of Hanotiau & van den Berg in Brussels. Nicolas is IR Global’s exclusive Wills & Estates member in France, and Pierre is IR Global’s exclusive Commercial Litigation member in Belgium. Thank you for sharing this photo with us! If you have any photos of member meetings that you would like […]
The coronavirus pandemic has caused governments across the world to take measures that impact the movement of people rarely, if ever, seen in peacetime before. Understandably, this has adversely affected […]
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Foreward by Andrew Chilvers The coronavirus pandemic has caused governments across the world to take measures that impact the movement of people rarely if ever, seen in peacetime before. Understandably, this has adversely affected businesses and created a host of employment law issues in every country. When the first case of coronavirus – or COVID-19 […]
The French government has enabled expedited procedures for employers to facilitate partial unemployment during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and has slightly increased the hourly employment allowance. At a time when many companies are experiencing a drop in activity related to the COVID-19 Coronavirus in particular due to the recent one-month administrative closure of most stores […]
The Parliament thus authorized the Government to take by ordinance any measure, being able to enter into force, if necessary, as from March 12, 2020, relating to the field of the law: Adapting the deadlines and procedures applicable to the filing and processing of declarations and requests presented to administrative authorities, the deadlines and methods […]
