Referred to in the preamble to the 1946 French Constitution, and reinforced on numerous occasions by various laws between 1972 and 2008, professional equality between women and men is nevertheless struggling to establish itself in France. Indeed, despite these numerous regulations, the Cour de Cassation and the Conseil des Prud’hommes regularly have to rule on the situation of an employee who feels wronged by her employer. This is an opportunity for our experts, Nicolas Sauvage, lawyer at Reed Smith, and Michael Hayat, Conseiller Prud’hommes and Délégué aux affaires sociales at Syntec Numérique, to take a closer look at parity issues.
Program produced by Décideurs TV. November 2011