Posts by Emmanuelle Sutton

France is well-known to have some of the world’s strongest legal protections against all forms of workplace bullying, with notoriously harsh sanctions for both the perpetrator and, potentially, the employer.…

In France, the DUERP – or Document Unique d’Evaluation des Risques Professionnels (Single Document for Professional Risk Assessment) – is the main reference tool for preventing accidents in the workplace.…

Disciplinary action is one of the largest areas of confusion for British companies employing people in France. Although the behaviour that constitutes a workplace offence is much the same in…

Paternity Leave Provisions in France Just as we described when summarising the provisions for maternity leave in French workplaces, paternity leave is taken in two separate parts. However, the combined…