Economic layoffs: what to remember from the latest court decisions

Economic layoffs give rise to a great deal of litigation before the industrial tribunals. The most frequently raised arguments are the lack of seriousness of the economic reason invoked and the employer's failure to fulfill its prior obligation to redeploy the employee.

The Court of Cassation has nevertheless long held that such dismissal is without real and serious cause when it is the result of culpable negligence, or even mismanagement, of...