A set of 26 decrees to implement the five ordinances to reform France’s labour law (for detail, see article n° 10330) were published in the country’s Official Journal before the end of 2017, so that they would become effective from 1 January 2018. President Emmanuel Macron had committed to publishing the implementing texts as soon as possible, to ensure that the reform would come into force quickly. Here we have an overview of the main changes introduced by the reform.
Establishment of a single staff representation body. The social and economic committee (comité social et économique – CSE), is a newly-created structure designed to replace three of the four existing staff representation bodies (works council, staff representatives, health and safety committee) and bring them together. The new body is obligatory at companies with 11 employees or more (the existing threshold for appointing staff representatives) and retains the same powers of the bodies it replaces. A detailed decree, published just before the end of 2017, establishes norms for the body’s size, depending on the number of staff at the company, and for the ways in which its expertise is sought.
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