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French legal provisions applicable to sudden breaches of established business relationships are frequently applied in the framework of cross-border disputes between French and foreign companies, irrespective of which company is the terminated or the terminating party. By a decision rendered on May 20, 2014 in relation to a dispute between French companies and their Dutch […]

In deliberation n°2014-042 published on January 30, 2014, the French Data Protection Authority has taken a new step forward with respect to whistleblowing programs. It has indeed once again amended the simplified single authorization and extended its scope to new issues (including hygiene and safety, environment, workplace discrimination and harassment) that are de facto often […]

3Law n° 2014-288 of March 5, 2014 on occupational training, employment and social democracy includes several provisions that (i) impose new obligations on companies of all types and sizes with respect to career development review meetings, and (ii) significantly amend the current Individual Right to Training (Droit individual à la Formation or “DIF”) that will […]

Through its judgment of May 13, 2014[1], the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU“) allows individuals to obtain directly from the operator of a search engine, such as Google, the removal, under certain conditions, of links to web pages that display personal data relating to them. In 2010, Mr. Mario Costeja González, a […]

The transfer of the lease agreement pertaining to a property sold to a purchaser occurs regardless of whether the lease agreement is a notarial deed or a private deed. Yet, the lease agreement must bear a so-called date certaine (i.e. a fixed undisputable effective date). In case of a private deed, this means that the […]

In our December 2013 e-newsletter, we announced the forthcoming publication of the so-called “Florange” Law that notably imposes on companies and groups with at least 1,000 employees that intend to close down a site the obligation to search for a buyer. This has now been done… after three months of parliamentary vicissitudes! Even though the […]