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(Decision of the Labor Chamber of the Cour de Cassation dated September 23, 2009) Case law with regard to mobility clauses keeps evolving. The decision rendered by the Labor Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) is significant in its focus on the scope thereof: the group, which is a notion that is […]

In a decision rendered on March 17, 2009[1], followed much later by legal commentaries, the Commercial Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) recalled the importance of the drafting of the clauses of the by-laws that contain restrictions on the free disposal of shares. In the case in question, the petitioner disputed the […]

The recent developments on the interpretation and application of the maximum contractual payment terms effective since January 1, 2009 can be found at the end of this article. The Law for the Modernization of the Economy dated August 4, 2008 (known as the “LME Law“ instituted a ceiling for contractual payment terms agreed between professionals : […]

In France in 2008, the employment rate of employees between 55 and 64 years old was 38.30% whereas the European objective is 50% for 2010. The French government has taken several measures to keep senior citizens in their jobs: increasing the rate of the pension bonus of employees who continue to work after having reached […]

France is required to transpose the Directive 2007/64/EC of November 13, 2007 on payment services in the internal market before November 1, 2009. This has been done with the publication of the Order no. 2009-866 dated July 15, 2009. The Directive on payment services provides the legal framework necessary for the implementation of a single […]

While exchanges of information are less detrimental to competition and less damageable for the economy than price cartels and allocations of market shares, they can be considered as anticompetitive practices even if the exchanged information does not underpin another prohibited practice and does not directly concern prices. This is the final position adopted by the […]