General comments
Under French employment law, employees’ representatives benefit from a right to be consulted on a very wide range of matters concerning the running of the company. In particular, the works council must be informed and consulted on any matter relating to the organisation, the management and the general running of the company, which unsurprisingly includes collective dismissals for economic reasons (there are still uncertainties about the existence of a consultation obligation in case of individual redundancy).
Aside from this general rule, there exist different sets of rules applicable to procedures for collective dismissals that implement a requirement of … Continue Reading