Economic layoffs: what to remember from the latest court decisions
The Court of Cassation has reiterated in two recent decisions that a redundancy is not valid if the difficulties invoked by the employer are artificial or due to poor management. By Aline Chanu, lawyer at the Paris Bar
Economic layoffs give rise to a great deal of litigation before the industrial tribunals. The most frequently raised arguments are the lack of seriousness of the economic reason invoked and the employer's failure to fulfill its prior obligation to redeploy the employee.
The Court of Cassation has nevertheless long held that such dismissal is without real and serious cause when it is the result of culpable negligence, or even mismanagement, of...
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