Working time and labour law, Marine Tondelier
Scale of employment tribunal (prud'hommes) awards: Unfair dismissal penalised by six months' pay
Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.
The lever. Caps on the compensation a judge can award to an employee dismissed without real and serious cause. Direction rule: ↑ higher awards.
« Porter les peines en cas de condamnation pour licenciement abusif à six mois de salaire. »1Translation by the editorsRaise the penalties in the event of a conviction for unfair dismissal to six months' salary.
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Mandatory scale of compensation for dismissal without real and serious cause (Labour Code, Art. L1235-3, Ordinance No. 2017-1387 of 22 September 2017).
Horizon. Not applicable.
Limits. No budgetary effect. The scale ranges from 3 to 20 months of gross salary beyond 30 years of service.
- Légifrance, Code du travail, art. L1235-3 (version en vigueur depuis le 1er avril 2018, loi n° 2018-217 du 29 mars 2018), 2018-04-01: « Si le licenciement d'un salarié survient pour une cause qui n'est pas réelle et sérieuse, le juge peut proposer la réintégration du salarié dans l'entreprise, avec maintien de ses avantages acquis. Si l'une ou l'autre des parties refuse cette réintégration, le juge octroie au salarié une indemnité à la charge de l'employeur […] [tableau, dernière ligne] 30 et au-delà : 3 ; 20 [mois de salaire brut] »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Pour une prospérité écologique, programme des Écologistes, p. 58. Open the document at this page.
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