Pending case at the French Supreme Court. In this case, an employee had first been employed by a French company for several years before being employed by a company from the same group, based in Great Britain, to work in Morocco. In the second employment contract, the second employer committed to preserve some contractual rights the employee acquired in his initial employment contract. After being dismissed, several years later, the employee sued both companies for unfair dismissal at the employment tribunal of the first company’s registered address. When the CJEC renders its decision, the French Supreme Court will have to define both the question of the permanence of the contractual link between the employee and the French company and the question of the French tribunal’s competence vis-à-vis the British company.
companies for unfair dismissal at the employment tribunal of the first company’s registered address. When the CJEC renders its decision, the French Supreme Court will have to define both the question of the permanence of the contractual link between the employee and the French company and the question of the French tribunal’s competence vis-à-vis the British company.
Possibility of legal action in the home country of one of several employers. The French Court of Cassation had questioned the E
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