After recognizing in September 2023 that employees on sick leave are entitled to accrue paid leave, the French Supreme Court has now recently ruled that paid leave must be taken into account when calculating the threshold for overtime, meaning that an employee subject to weekly working time calculations can claim overtime pay even if they
NOUVEAU COUP DUR POUR LES EMPLOYEURS : UN SALARIE TOMBANT MALADE PENDANT SES CONGES PAYES A DROIT AU REPORT DE SES CONGES PAYES
Coup dur pour les employeurs : après avoir reconnu en septembre 2023 aux salariés en arrêt maladie le droit d’acquérir des congés payés, le 10 septembre 2025, la Cour de cassation a jugé que les congés payés doivent dorénavant être pris en compte dans le calcul du seuil de déclenchement des heures supplémentaires, un salarié soumis
HOMEWORKING: TOWARDS INCREASED COSTS FOR EMPLOYERS
Homeworking has recently been in the news, particularly with some companies requiring more on-site work and a significant decline in the amount of time spent homeworking.
The French Supreme Court recently ruled on a related issue, namely the payment of a home occupancy allowance, which seems unlikely to encourage companies to promote homeworking.
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Artificial Intelligence at Work: Legal Issues in French Labour Law
- Virtual assistants (e.g. ChatGPT) for drafting emails, summarising
L’intelligence artificielle au travail : les enjeux juridiques en droit social
L’intelligence artificielle (IA) s’invite progressivement dans nos vies professionnelles, que ce soit dans le recrutement, la gestion des ressources humaines, l’automatisation des tâches ou la prise de décision. Les salariés utilisent l’IA afin d’améliorer leur efficacité, ou pour les aider dans des tâches rébarbatives, et souvent sans que leur hiérarchie en soit informée.
L’IA dans
TELETRAVAIL : VERS UN ACCROISSEMENT DES COUTS POUR L’EMPLOYEUR
Le télétravail occupe beaucoup de place ces derniers temps dans l’actualité et notamment s’agissant du retour pour certaines entreprises à un travail davantage en présentiel et à un net recul du temps passé en télétravail.
C’est sur un autre sujet, l’indemnité d’occupation du domicile, que la Cour de cassation a dernièrement pris position, ce
Global WHS trends
Introduction
In this article we explore four of the key issues and trends affecting organisations globally from a work health and safety perspective, both now and in the future: global WHS regulation; the rise of technology; changing workforce populations and structures; and psychosocial hazards and risks.
In examining these trends, we have been struck by
New Commonwealth Code of Practice – Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work (2024)
The Australian Government has recently approved a new Code of Practice – Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work under section 274 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth). The new Code is largely based on Safe Work Australia’s model code of practice of the same name, but there are some important differences.
A summary
New government, new safety rules
Queensland’s new state government has moved urgently to make changes to the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) (WHS Act). We set out below a summary of the changes which were passed by Parliament late on Thursday 28 November 2024 and commenced on Friday 29 November 2024.
1 Cease Work Notices
Only a few
Paid holiday leave during sick leave: the new rules
In our previous blog on 26 February 2024 (Paid leave entitlements during sickness absence: a significant change in France | Global Workplace Insider), we mentioned the reversal in case law taken by the French Supreme Court concerning the rules applicable to accrual of paid annual leave for employees absent on sick leave.
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