Paris Lawyers Author Q&A on Business Partial Activity Requirements for ‘La Quotidienne des Editions Francis Lefebvre’

Paris Labor Law Partners Marion Brière Ségala and Claire Fougea addressed a number of concerns associated with the government’s partial activity plan in a Q&A article published Oct. 16 in La Quotidienne des Editions Francis Lefebvre. To limit the consequences of the health crisis linked to COVID-19, the government gave a new boost to partial activity, a mechanism popular with French employers. To help streamline the procedure for investigating requests for partial activity and in light of the financial volumes involved, the public authorities decided to strengthen a posteriori control to verify their regularity. What do the employers who commit fraud risk? What is the scope of the control carried out by the French authority? What options are available to employees?