Luxembourg: a group of companies reaching the 1.000-employee threshold are in the scope of the law on joint management

In a decision passed on May 15, 2007, the administrative Court specified that the law on joint management, which is applied to companies with over 1.000 employees with their headquarters in Luxembourg, also concerns groups made up of several companies located of the Grand Duchy whose workforce exceeds this threshold. (Ref. 070549)
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A company comes in the filed of legal provisions on joint management as soon as it has “the shape of a public company” and that it reaches the number of 1.000 employees during the last three years (article L. 426 of the Labour code). From then on, one third of administrators has to represent the company’s staff (article L. 426). What happens when it is not a public company but for group made up of several public companies that reach this threshold ? “Several first-degree jurisdictions had until

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