{"id":40293,"date":"2025-05-14T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mgglegal.com\/?p=40293"},"modified":"2025-12-18T11:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:39:05","slug":"damages-for-unfair-dismissal-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/damages-for-unfair-dismissal-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Supreme Court rules once again against a Court of Appeal that does not respect the Macron Scale regarding compensation for unfair dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Context<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>In a ruling dated 9 April 2025, the French Supreme Court reaffirmed the binding nature of the &#8220;<em>Macron scale<\/em>&#8221; under the French Labour Code.<\/p><p>This scale caps compensation in case of unfair dismissal (\u201c<em>licenciement sans cause r\u00e9elle et s\u00e9rieuse<\/em>\u201d)<\/p><p>This ruling follows a decision by the Court of Appeal of Grenoble, which had ordered a Company to pay damages to an employee above the Macron Scale.<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Legal issue<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>Can a judge override the maximum compensation set by the Macron scale on the grounds that it fails to provide adequate compensation under international law?<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>French Supreme Court Ruling<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>The Supreme Court says no!<\/p><p>According to the Supreme Court, the Macron scale provides for compensation that is both dissuasive for the employer and reasonable for the employee, in line with the internal law rules.<\/p><p>The Court specifies that the European Social Charter (\u201ccharte sociale europ\u00e9enne\u201d) cannot be invoked to challenge the scale, as it does not have direct effect under French law.<\/p><p>Thus, the courts must strictly apply the minimum and maximum amounts established by the Macron scale and assess the compensation within this range based on the employee&#8217;s individual situation.<\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Key Takeaway<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><p>The Macron scale remains the legal standard for determining compensation in unfair dismissal cases. Courts must apply it strictly, without exceeding the statutory ceiling.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/juri\/id\/JURITEXT000051464954\">French Supreme Court, April 9, 2025 n\u00b024-13.958<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a ruling dated 9 April 2025, the French Supreme Court reaffirmed the binding nature of the &#8220;Macron scale&#8221; under the French Labour Code. This scale caps compensation in case of unfair dismissal (\u201clicenciement sans cause r\u00e9elle et s\u00e9rieuse\u201d) This ruling follows a decision by the Court of Appeal of Grenoble, which had ordered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40293","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\/40293","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=40293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40675,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40293\/revisions\/40675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgglegal.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}