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An employee's resignation must be clear and unequivocal.When the employee's clear and unequivocal intention to resign is not established, a judge may reclassify the resignation as dismissal without re...
An employer may provide accommodation to an employee in two ways:through a residential lease separate from the employment contract; oras part of the employment contract, as a benefit linked to it. The...
The inclusion of a place of work in an employment contract is for information purposes only, unless a clear and precise clause indicates that the employee will perform their work exclusively at that l...
In principle, an employee working on a fixed-term contract must have an end date for their employment specified in their contract.However, in an exhaustive list of cases, the employment contract of an...
Employers are prohibited from making the same employee work more than six days per week.But what does "week" mean in this context? The calendar week, from Monday at midnight to Sunday at midnight incl...
During periods of suspension of their employment contract, employees remain bound by a duty of loyalty to their employer. However, carrying out an activity while on sick leave does not in itself const...
According to the French Labour Code, "No one shall be subjected to sexist behaviour, defined as any behaviour related to a person's sex, which has the purpose or effect of violating their dignity or c...
Any measure, other than verbal observations, taken by the employer following an action by the employee that the employer considers to be wrongful constitutes a sanction. These measures may or may not ...
Employers may impose different penalties on employees who have committed the same offence, in the interests of the company.In other words, imposing different penalties on employees does not, per se, c...
According to the French Labour Code, "Teleworkers have the same rights as employees who perform their work on the company's premises."Two rulings dated 8 October 2025 held that employers cannot refuse...
An employer who becomes aware of misconduct has two months to initiate disciplinary proceedings against an employee. By way of exception, this statute of limitation is interrupted if criminal proceedi...
According to the French Labour Code, any hour worked in excess of the legal weekly working time or the time considered equivalent is overtime, which entitles the employee to additional pay or, where a...
Under French legislation, a whistleblower is a person who reports or discloses, without direct financial compensation and in good faith, information relating to a crime, offence, threat or harm to the...
When a period of paid leave coincides with another cause for suspension of the employment contract, Court of Cassation case law traditionally gave precedence to the first cause for suspension:If sick ...