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MORAL HARASSMENT AT WORK UNDER THE FRENCH LEGAL SYSTEM - ANALYSIS OF RELEVANT CASE LAW
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France is well-known for its solid and fierce social system, particularly in terms of employment. However, despite the French legislator's efforts to create a legislative protection shield for the French employees, moral harassment at work developed itself as a silent, ever-growing and - at a certain extent - tolerated phenomenon which led to a significant number of suicides. This paper aims to present the proper, complex and thorough legislative protection granted under the French legislation against various types of acts of moral harassment at work. In particular, this paper shall analyse the most important cases of moral harassment at work that French employees have had to deal with during the last years and that had been submitted for ruling with the French Supreme Court. This paper shall also outline the main conclusions that may be drawn from the diverse and intense activity of the French courts of law in the field of moral harassment at work and the impact of such guidelines in framing the scope of the legislative definition of moral harassment at work.
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Maria Isabel S. Guererro “The Development of Moral Harassment (or Mobbing) Law in Sweden and France as a Step Towards EU Legislation”, published with the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, Volume 27, Issue 2, 2004, available at http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol27/iss2/10/, accessed on 15 July 2015.
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Article 222-33-2 (Le fait de harceler autrui par des agissements répétés ayant pour objet ou pour effet une dégradation des conditions de travail susceptible de porter atteinte à ses droits et à sa dignité, d'altérer sa santé physique ou mentale ou de compromettre son avenir professionnel, est puni de deux ans d'emprisonnement et de 30 000 € d'amende). The full text of the French Criminal Code is available at the following website address: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCode.do, accessed on 11 July 2015.
All court cases indicated herein are available at the following website address: http://legifrance.gouv.fr/initRechJuriJudi.do, last accessed on 14 July 2015.
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