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Newsletter November, 2021

France: An executive Order on representation rights for platform workers

November, 2021
  • Governmental Order No. 2021-484 of 21 April 2021 on the modalities of representation of self-employed workers using platforms is currently under the revision of the Parliament.
Newsletter October, 2021

New Ways of Working: A comparative reference tool

October, 2021
  • New Ways of Working is a new comparative reference tool developed by International Employment Lawyer,providing information on key employment and compliance topics (such as vaccinations, legislation on remote work and social relations) in 20 countries around the world.
  • It enables multinational employers to compare different legal systems and their approach to the pandemic and new ways of working that recently developed.
Newsletter September, 2021

European Court of Human Rights: “No” to the suspension of compulsory vaccination

September, 2021
  • On 19 August 2021, the European Court of Human Rights received a request for interim measures from 672 members of the French fire service to suspend the requirement to be vaccinated as set out in section 12 of the French Law of 5 August 2021.
  • On 24 August 2021, the Court rejected the requests.
  • In the same way, on 7 September 2021, the Court refused requests for interim measures submitted in two applications lodged against Greece concerning the compulsory vaccination of health-sector professionals against Covid-19.
Newsletter August, 2021

France: new law designed to combat the COVID-19 epidemic more effectively

August, 2021
  • Law No. 2021-1040 of 5 August 2021 on health crisis management covers two main measures: the extension of the health pass (‘passe sanitaire’) and the compulsory vaccination for certain categories of people working in the health sector.
  • Failure by the employer to comply with the obligation to monitor compliance with the vaccination requirement is punishable by a fine of 1500 EUR.
Newsletter September, 2020

Cross-border employees: the exception to the European regulation is extended

September, 2020
  • European regulation on the 25% limit of telework in the country of residence for cross-border workers was suspended by agreements among neighbouring European countries 
Newsletter August, 2020

France gets rid of a EUR10 tax on a short term contracts

August, 2020
  • Specific short-term contracts previously subject to a tax of EUR10 are now exempted
Newsletter July, 2020

France: temperature checks before entering the workplace are not permitted

July, 2020
  • Health checks with data collection are prohibited
  • Health checks with no additional collection of data are allowed, but the employee can refuse them
Newsletter July, 2020

France: upskilling of agency workers agreed by the sectoral social partners

July, 2020
  • Social partners put in place a system supporting  the employability of agency workers

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