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France: Law driven restructuring As Belgium, France balances the right given to management to decide whether restructuring and lay-offs must be implemented or not by an obligation to inform and consult workers’ representatives. |
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Companies and works councils
are the main actors. Until very recently, trade unions were not
legally entitled to play a role during the information and consultation
process but, as in Germany, trade unions counselling and training
of works councils are important when it comes to deal with restructuring. |
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Given the importance of
law and the right of works councils to sue employers, the judge
is an important back stage actor of those processes. |
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Recent innovations follow
two different directions: a law focusing on anticipation has tried
to boost negotiations at company and group level, and an experiment
giving a one year contract (contrat de transition professionnelle),
active support for workers laid-off and looking for a new job is
under way in six towns. |
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| Case studies:
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Downsizing at the ADDA factory
in Poix-du-Nord |
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Changes in the aeronautics
sector – the case of Airbus in Midi-Pyrénées |
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Cap Compétences:
collective management of the risk of redundancy within an “extended
enterprise” |
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Takeover of a private clinic
by a public hospital in a medium-sized town restructuring and improvement
of job quality |
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Restructuring of the industrial
plant belonging to Alcatel Business in Illkich-Graffenstaden (Alsace,
France) |
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Changes and the local area:
The Tarn case |
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The factory closure by a
large French group |
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