The bill for growth, activity and equal economic opportunities, called “Macron Bill” was published in the Official Journal of August 7, 2015, cut of its provisions censored by the Constitutional Council which are summarized, in social matters, to the capping of damages for dismissal without just cause (Section 266) (Decision 2015-715 DC of 5 August 2015).
The Macron Bill came into force on August 8, 2015 with the exception of those provisions:
- whose application is subject to the publication of decrees: Sunday working in international tourist areas; measures relating to the discipline of industrial tribunal advisors; the status of union defender; the possibility for the employer to periodically replenish the Perco in the absence of deposit by the employee; most of the measures against social dumping and those against fraud in the construction industry; modification of the employees’ information regime on transfer of undertakings; the possibility for the employer to determine the scope of the order of layoffs in its unilateral document; the restriction to the national territory of the scope of redeployment obligation in international companies and groups;
- or whose coming into force is postponed to January 1st, 2016: the establishment of a social package with reduced rate for some companies for their first participation agreement or profit sharing agreement; the default assignment of the profit to a company savings plan; the removal of the specific contribution of the employer’s matching contribution to the Perco and other specific rules relative to the Perco.