Employee Rights in France, United States of America, Djibouti & Germany
International Law Report
Employee Rights in France, United States of America, Djibouti & Germany
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Introduction
Since the beginning of the industrialized world, employees have expressed the will to be more respected. The fight for employee’s rights started in Europe and in the United States of America with strikes, demonstrations and later legal and political procedures. This evolution of the laws resulted to more employees’ rights in the occidental countries.
Both Federal and State laws in all over the world have bestowed each employee with specific rights at the workplace. In a word, all employees have to be treated and compensated fairly at all times and should be aware about their legal rights and employment laws.
Nowadays, we can observe many employees rights differences between countries in Europe, Anglo-Saxons employment rights and African employment laws.
In this report, we mainly focus on the Employees’ Rights in some countries for these three different business cultures and areas. The first and second part of this report will be dedicated to European rights with analysis of French and German Employment rights. After this, in a third part we will take a look to American employments rights. To conclude, we will focus on Djiboutian employment rights.
Employees rights in France
Under the Regulation Rome 1, the French employment contract is governed or by the law selected by the parties or in the absence of selection the law that governed the contract is the law of the country where the employee habitually carries out his work in performance of the contract. However, if the place of performance cannot be determined because the employee performs in many countries, then the law of the country where the place of business through which the employees was engaged shall governed.
This means that in case of absence of selection, a French employee working in Amsterdam in a German company, the law applicable will be the Dutch Law.
Employee Rights in France, United States of America, Djibouti & Germany
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Introduction
Since the beginning of the industrialized world, employees have expressed the will to be more respected. The fight for employee’s rights started in Europe and in the United States of America with strikes, demonstrations and later legal and political procedures. This evolution of the laws resulted to more employees’ rights in the occidental countries.
Both Federal and State laws in all over the world have bestowed each employee with specific rights at the workplace. In a word, all employees have to be treated and compensated fairly at all times and should be aware about their legal rights and employment laws.
Nowadays, we can observe many employees rights differences between countries in Europe, Anglo-Saxons employment rights and African employment laws.
In this report, we mainly focus on the Employees’ Rights in some countries for these three different business cultures and areas. The first and second part of this report will be dedicated to European rights with analysis of French and German Employment rights. After this, in a third part we will take a look to American employments rights. To conclude, we will focus on Djiboutian employment rights.
Employees rights in France
Under the Regulation Rome 1, the French employment contract is governed or by the law selected by the parties or in the absence of selection the law that governed the contract is the law of the country where the employee habitually carries out his work in performance of the contract. However, if the place of performance cannot be determined because the employee performs in many countries, then the law of the country where the place of business through which the employees was engaged shall governed.
This means that in case of absence of selection, a French employee working in Amsterdam in a German company, the law applicable will be the Dutch Law.