Marie-Hélène Bensadoun

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August Debouzy Expands International Reach with Launch of Spanish & Lusophone Desk

August Debouzy expands its global footprint with the launch of its Spanish & Lusophone Desk, a dedicated team providing expert legal counsel to clients from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries with business interests in France. Building on the strength of the firm’s Paris and Brussels offices, as well as its established German Desk, this new initiative offers customized services in collaboration with a network of trusted local law firms to ensure seamless support.

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Clarification of the decree of April 24, 2020 concerning the end of the uspension of certain time limits applicable under labour law

Remember, a month ago already, the much-commented Order of April 25,2020 on the extension of expired time limits provided for the suspension of time limits for many administrative procedures and specified in its article 9 that a special decree would determine the categories of acts or procedures for which time limits would resume.

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Amazon en appel, commentaire de la décision du 24 avril 2020

Amazon en appel, commentaire de la décision du 24 avril 2020

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Décision Amazon du 14 avril 2020 : quels enseignements en tirer pour une reprise sécurisée de l'activité de l'entreprise ?

Le tribunal judiciaire de Nanterre a rendu, le 14 avril 2020, une ordonnance de référé condamnant la société Amazon France Logistique à restreindre son activité aux commandes de produits de première nécessité tant qu’elle n’aura pas mené, en y associant les représentants du personnel, une évaluation des risques professionnels inhérents à l’épidémie de covid-19 et mis en œuvre les mesures nécessaires de prévention et de protection de la santé des salariés.

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COVID19 - Postponement of workers' medical visits - Details on the decree of April 8, 2020.

The Ordinance n°2020-386 of April 1,2020 adapting the conditions of health service missions during the state of health emergency provided the possibility to postpone the medical visits monitoring workers health status and that the conditions of the postponement  would be clarified later in a decree.

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Partial Activity Scheme :Relaxation of the Ordinance of march 27,2020.

The day after the publication in the Official Journal of the decree of march 25,2020,the partial activity scheme has been softened by the Ordinance on emergency measures relating to partial activity.

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Partial activity – the decree is finally published !

The decree relating to partial activity has finally been published on March 25, 2020. It is immediately enforceable and applicable to the requests that has been filed  - as from today - regarding the implementation of partial activity for all employees as of March 1, 2020.

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The emergency law of March 23, 2020 relating to the Covid-19 outbreak has been published today: main provisions concerning employment Law

This law expresses a state of sanitary emergency throughout the French territory for a 2-month period starting March 24, 2020. In addition to the measures related to the limitation of circulation with which French people are now familiar, this law lists the various areas in which the government is empowered to enact bills, in order to safeguard public health and provides for economic, financial and social consequences of the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Coronavirus - Partial activity should remain the last resort

On Thursday, March 19th, the President Macron called on "businesses essential to our economy to continue their activity while complying with health and safety rules". He referred to "the companies' civic responsibility to continue their activity whenever possible". The same day, this position was conveyed by the Medef (French employers’ federation) in a letter sent to all the companies' heads in France to urge them to "imperatively continue to produce during this period of containment". Many companies have indeed contemplated applying for partial activity, particularly after the Ministry of Labor announced an extension of the partial activity scheme by decree to be published in the following days. This decree should, in particular, provide for an increase of the State's reimbursement of the indemnification paid by companies to their concerned employees.

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Coronavirus: How can employers best protect their employees?

Employers have a general safety obligation vis-à-vis their employees, requiring them to take the necessary steps to ensure their workers’ safety and to protect their physical and mental health. This is an enhanced duty of care, which means that employers can avoid liability if they can prove that they have taken all the preventative measures provided for by Articles L. 4121-1 and L. 4121-2 of the French Employment Code.