Jean-Philippe Lhernould

New French legislation aims to combat unfair social competition arising from the abuse of posted workers sent by a company from one EU Member State to another. Among other provisions, the new law institutes a system of financial liability to encourage contractors to make sure that treatment of

One of the main pledges of the election campaign of French President François Hollande was a promise to tackle the country’s chronic youth unemployment problem. His government, elected in April 2012, put forward proposals for its Generation Contract, one element of which would be intended to

Social partners signed an agreement on 7 November 2011 with the aim of ensuring job stability in the cash in transit sector and avoiding unfair competition based on salaries and working conditions.

The French government brought in a law on 29 July 2011 [1] to establish a new system to help reintegrate employees into work, who had previously been subject to collective redundancy procedures. It followed an agreement (in French, 743Kb PDF) that was signed by social partners [2] at national level

French law provides an original system of measuring working time for managers. Instead of calculating how many hours they work, managers can have their working time calculated on the basis of the number of days worked per year, regardless of how many hours they work during each day.

In 1989, the French parliament introduced a new form of means-tested general income support called ‘minimum integration income’ (/Revenu minimum d’insertion/, RMI) for people who reside in France and have insufficient financial resources. Students were not eligible to receive these funds, and the