{"id":40283,"date":"2025-05-07T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgglegal.com\/?p=40283"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:39:12","slug":"protected-employees-may-be-placed-on-temporary-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/protected-employees-may-be-placed-on-temporary-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Protected employees may be placed on temporary leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>? <strong>Can a protected employee be placed on leave during an internal investigation?<\/strong> Yes\u2014under strict conditions.<\/p><p>? In a landmark ruling dated <strong>April 4, 2025 (CE no. 489866)<\/strong>, the <strong>French Administrative Supreme Court<\/strong> confirmed that an employer may place a <strong>protected employee<\/strong> (e.g., union rep, staff delegate) on <strong>paid provisional leave<\/strong> during an investigation \u2014 <strong>as long as it does not result in a lasting change to their employment contract without their consent<\/strong>.<\/p><p>\u2696\ufe0f This temporary measure must:<br>\u2705 Be <strong>justified<\/strong> by the needs of the investigation<br>\u2705 Be <strong>limited in time<\/strong> and <strong>paid<\/strong><br>\u2705 <strong>Precede<\/strong> any formal disciplinary process<br>\u2705 <strong>Not alter<\/strong> the contract or working conditions permanently<\/p><p>? In this case, the leave allowed a harassment investigation to proceed quietly, respecting both workplace safety and employee rights.<\/p><p>? <strong>Key takeaway for HR and legal teams<\/strong>:<br>Even when dealing with protected staff, <strong>your duty to ensure a safe and healthy work environment prevails<\/strong>. But any provisional measures must be proportionate, temporary, and well-documented.<\/p><p>#HR #LabourLaw #EmployeeRelations #WorkplaceSafety #Jurisprudence #France #DisciplinaryProcess #ProtectedEmployee #LegalUpdate<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? Can a protected employee be placed on leave during an internal investigation? Yes\u2014under strict conditions. ? In a landmark ruling dated April 4, 2025 (CE no. 489866), the French Administrative Supreme Court confirmed that an employer may place a protected employee (e.g., union rep, staff delegate) on paid provisional leave during an investigation \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40676,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions\/40676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}