France

New and updated

• France: Pay and benefits

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect a change to permissible limits on attachment of earnings sums, an increase to the national minimum wage, changes to income tax bands and rates and the introduction of an exceptional purchasing-power bonus scheme for 2020.

• France: Employee rights

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect an increase to statutory maternity benefit and the introduction of a trial period extending the circumstances in which fixed-term contracts may be used.

• France: Training and development

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect an increase to the bonus payable to students on work placements, effective 1 January 2020.

• France: Health and safety

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect a change to the employee threshold that requires companies and establishments to draw up internal work rules.

• France: Useful information - key future employment law developments

  Type:

  International

  A brief summary of significant developments that will impact on employment law in France.

• France: Equal opportunities

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect the introduction of a requirement for certain employers to appoint a resource person to deal with sexual harassment.

• France: Recruitment and selection

  Type:

  International

  An employment law guide to recruitment and selection in France, covering discrimination, advertising vacancies, selection, job offers, young people and children, foreign nationals, employment quota for people with disabilities, priority for employment and formalities.

• France: Termination of employment

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect the abolition of employment-maintenance and employment-preservation or development agreements.

• France: Industrial relations

  Type:

  International

  An employment law guide to industrial relations in France, covering trade unions, collective bargaining, informing and consulting employees, informing and consulting prior to redundancies, informing and consulting prior to transfers, European Works Councils, industrial action and picketing, and board-level employee representation.

• France: Contracts of employment

  Type:

  International

  Updated to reflect the introduction of collective performance agreements.