France: Rules on foreign redeployment to be tightened

In July 2009, the lower house of the French Parliament gave a first reading to a law that should prevent employers offering redundant workers low-paid jobs abroad in order to meet their statutory requirement to try and redeploy surplus staff.

Before making redundancies, employers are legally obliged to make serious efforts to redeploy the employees concerned within the company or, if the company forms part of a wider group, within the whole group of companies.