French Employment law: validity of a Mutual agreed termination (rupture conventionnelle) signed with an unfit employee following a work accident (c. cass. May 9, 2019, n°17-28767)

This decision is in line with the French Supreme Court’ case law (Cour de cassation) which aims to "secure" mutual agreed terminations (See our article: Employees, executives, senior managers - Conventional termination: the most important decisions of the Court of Cassation in 2018.

https://www.village-justice.com/articles/salaries-cadres-cadres-dirigeants-rupture-conventionnelle-les-arrets-les-plus,30906.html

Nevertheless, the French Supreme Court notes that the mutual agreed termination will remain void in the event of fraud or a defect of the consent.
In this case, the employee had not used these 2 means of cancelling the mutual agreed termination.

To read  the full Article, please click on the link below.

https://blogavocat.fr/space/frederic.chhum/content/french-labour-law-mutual-agreed-termination-rupture-conventionnelle-validity-mutual-agreed-termination-concluded-unfit-employee-following-work-accident-c.-cass.-may-9-2019-n%C2%B017-28767_


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