Lexology GTDT Market Intelligence provides a unique perspective on evolving legal and regulatory landscapes. This interview is taken from the Labour & Employment volume featuring discussion and analysis of legal developments, the enforcement of restrictive covenants and political debates about employment within key jurisdictions worldwide.
1 What are the most important new developments in your jurisdiction over the past year in employment law?
The covid crisis has been the focus of most recent legal developments since March 2020.
In employment law, the Law of 23 March 2020 on emergency measures to face the covid health crisis allowed the French government to issue regulations aimed in particular at limiting mass lay-offs and mitigating the effects of reductions of business activity (see question 2 regarding partial activity schemes) as well as modifying the social and economic committee (CSE) information and consultation process to enable CSEs to issue the required covid-related opinions within shorter deadlines.
In parallel, the French government issued numerous guidelines focused primarily on protecting employees’ health and safety during the covid-19 epidemic.
The French Ministry of labour issued ‘deconfinement protocols’ during the peak of the epidemic in May and June 2020, and on 31 August 2020 a ‘national protocol to protect employees’ health and safety in the workplace from the covid-19 epidemic’. These protocols set rules to be followed by employers and...
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