The French Court of Cassation ordered the contractual relationship between the Uber company and a driver to be reclassified as an employment contract. The court found that when connecting to …
Top French court deals blow to Uber by giving driver ’employee’ status
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s top court has recognized the right of an Uber driver to be considered an employee, a ruling that could upend the U.S. firm’s business model and potentially …
Due diligence: has France really laid the foundations to end corporate impunity?
On 24 October 2013, the Rana Plaza disaster in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, triggered a huge outcry. Over a thousand people were killed when the building, which housed garment factories, …
Total abuses in Uganda: French High Court of Justice declares itself incompetent in favour of the Commercial Court
The Nanterre High Court has handed down its decision on the summary proceedings brought by Friends of the Earth France, Survie and four Ugandan associations (AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE/Friends of the …
French NGOs and local authorities take court action against Total
Groups claim that the oil giant has not done enough to tackle climate change An alliance of 14 French local authorities and several NGOs will take unprecedented court action this …
Evaluation de la mise en œuvre de la loi n° 2017-399 du 27 mars 2017 relative au devoir de vigilance des sociétés mères et des entreprises donneuses d’ordre
SYNTHESE Le drame du Rana Plaza au Bangladesh le 24 avril 2013 a déclenché une réaction mondiale. Même si la prise en compte des enjeux sociaux, environnementaux et sociétaux par …
3 French Executives Convicted in Suicides of 35 Workers
The employees at France Télécom killed themselves in the mid-2000s after management sought to reduce the work force through a policy of harassment, a court found. The former chief executive …
NGOs file suit against Total over Uganda oil project
Six NGOs said Wednesday that they had filed a lawsuit against the French energy giant Total over an oil field project in Uganda, accusing it of failing to avert “disastrous …
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