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Germany: Home office under the new Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance

To combat and prevent the further spread of COVID-19 (the SARS-CoV-2-virus), the German government has issued a new “SARS-CoV-2 Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance” (Corona-ArbSchV) (the Ordinance) providing for additional and time-limited measures to reduce workplace-related personal contacts. These measures include the obligation for employers to offer their employees home working, unless there are compelling … Continue reading

L’accord national interprofessionnel du 26 novembre 2020 : « soft law » à la française

By Elodie Grangier on December 30, 2020 Posted in Contracts, Coronavirus, Europe, France, General

Le télétravail s’est largement développé en France au fil des années, et naturellement, ce mode de travail a été particulièrement utilisé, bon gré mal gré, par les entreprises au cours de l’année 2020, à la faveur de la crise sanitaire, et des recommandations (plus ou moins liantes) du Gouvernement. Les bases du télétravail ont été … Continue reading

French employment code reform: Focus on homeworking

By Elodie Grangier and François Guillon on October 23, 2017 Posted in Contracts, Europe, France

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed five ordinances making important changes to several aspects of the French employment code. The ordinances, which were immediately published in the French Official Journal on September 23rd, 2017, are aimed in particular at providing employers more flexibility and predictability in labour-management relations. Several provisions of this ambitious reform (the … Continue reading

Could homeworking be a thing of the past?

By Claire Darbourne (UK) on April 9, 2013 Posted in Europe, UK

You may have read in the UK press recently that a leading internet company has instructed its Head of Human Resources to issue a memo to staff stating that there will be no more remote working. Could this mean the beginning of the end for homeworking? This development is interesting because companies witin the technical sector … Continue reading