During the day-to-day management of their staff, particularly staff who are seconded or expatriated, companies frequently encounter problems regarding Social Security law.

This is a technical and complex area with implications which often go beyond the French framework, and we have several specialist lawyers who handle, under French, EU or international law, issues arising from a Social Security and tax perspective in connection with registration with mandatory welfare protection schemes and the benefits provided under such schemes.

Supplementary welfare coverage provided at company level is now an increasingly important aspect of the collective status of employees, and which employers may wish to optimise.

Employee savings is an extremely technical area bordering on labour law, tax law and financial law.

Aside from the mandatory and longstanding regime governing profit-sharing schemes, several recent legislative reforms have considerably modernised the law applicable to employee savings schemes and employee shareholding, and companies now have a range of options to grant their staff an interest in the results, development or even the share capital of the company.