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Caroline Froger-Michon

Partner
Co-Head of the CMS Employment & Pensions Group

CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
2 rue Ancelle
92522 Neuilly-sur-Seine
Cedex
France
Languages English, French

Caroline Froger-Michon is Co-Head of the CMS Employment & Pensions Group. In this position, she jointly leads an international team of 280 lawyers.

Caroline is a partner in the Employment Law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. She works mainly with large French and international corporate groups in different sectors. Her expertise includes restructuring (transfer of employment contracts, adjustment of collective statutes, structure of information/consultation procedures, management of IRPs, etc.) and the employment aspects of M&A operations (due diligence, employment aspects of negotiations, support during information/consultation procedures, employment aspects of the legal framework used, post-acquisition monitoring, etc.).

Caroline also deals with the legal aspects of individual and collective labour relations, collective redundancies, voluntary redundancy plans, Works Council and European Works Council law, expertise in works councils and health & safety committees, etc. and discrimination, harassment, psycho-social risks.
She has extensive experience in providing day-to-day support to businesses or foreign corporate groups located in France or looking to move to France.

Caroline joined the firm in 2003.

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Relevant experience

  • Gide Loyrette Nouel Law firm - Employment law department (2001-2003)
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Memberships & Roles

  • Member of AVOSIAL (French Employment Lawyers' Association)  
  • Member of EELA (European Employment Lawyers' Association)
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Publications

  • LBO/Capital transmission, Dossiers Pratiques collection (2° édition 2013) - Editions Francis Lefebvre, co-author
  • Guide LBO, Dossiers Pratiques collection, Editions Francis Lefebvre, 2012, co-author
  • Cross-border transfers and redundancies » Tottel Publishing, co-author (2005)
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Education

  • Post-graduate degree in Public and Private Business Law, University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (2000)
  • Master's degree in Business Law and post-graduate diploma (DEA) in Private Law, University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne (1999)
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31/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to mo­bile work­ing
Al­though chal­lenges brought on by the pan­dem­ic vary from coun­try to coun­try, COV­ID-19 has changed the way we work and do busi­ness. The situ­ation has also raised ques­tions: Will the pan­dem­ic's im­pact be...
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21/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to whis­tleblower pro­tec­tion & re­port­ing chan­nels
In Oc­to­ber 2019, in the wake of a num­ber of whis­tleblower rev­el­a­tions (es­pe­cially the in­dus­tri­al-scale tax avoid­ance schemes re­vealed in the LuxLeaks scan­dal), the European Uni­on ad­op­ted the Whis­tleblower...
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23/02/2023
Lis­ted com­pan­ies will have to get bal­anced board of dir­ect­ors
Ten years after the first present­a­tion of the pro­pos­al, the European Dir­ect­ive known as “Wo­men on boards Dir­ect­ive” aim­ing at im­pos­ing a bet­ter bal­ance between wo­men and men among man­age­ment po­s­i­tions...
20/02/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to refugee im­mig­ra­tion and travel re­quire­ments
Eng­lish (дивиться текст українською нижче)With the aim of provid­ing a single source of in­form­a­tion for Ukrain­i­an refugees con­sid­er­ing where they now go, the CMS em­ploy­ment...
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28/12/2022
ESG: En­ergy Sobri­ety, a plan to re­duce our en­ergy con­sump­tion
On 6 Oc­to­ber 2022, the French gov­ern­ment presen­ted a so-called en­ergy sobri­ety plan elab­or­ated with all pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­iz­a­tions, aim­ing to re­duce the coun­try's over­all en­ergy con­sump­tion by 10% with­in...
20/12/2022
Di­versity and in­clu­sion: pro­hib­it­ing a type of hair­style can be dis­crim­in­at­ory
The re­quire­ments of the stew­ard's pro­fes­sion do not jus­ti­fy pro­hib­it­ing men from wear­ing hair­styles that are per­mit­ted for wo­men. This is what the French Su­preme Court has re­cently ruled in a de­cision...
30/03/2023
Cost-cut­ting and re­struc­tur­ing in times of crisis
A tough glob­al eco­nom­ic out­look is driv­ing many em­ploy­ers to re­view their op­er­a­tion­al costs. Across busi­nesses, hard ques­tions are be­ing asked about where ef­fi­cien­cies can be made – and ul­ti­mately what...
06/10/2022
CMS Ex­pert Guide to Dis­missals and Ter­min­a­tion of Em­ploy­ment
This year has seen un­em­ploy­ment reach his­tor­ic lows in many eco­nom­ies. With in­fla­tion and in­terest rates rising, how­ever, em­ploy­ers may face fresh pres­sures to re­view their work­force and see where ef­fi­cien­cies...
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06/09/2022
CMS Ex­pert Guide on dis­crim­in­a­tion in the work­place
Meas­ures to en­sure that cit­izens are treated equally and re­spect­fully, re­gard­less of gender, eth­ni­city, age, sexu­al­ity, be­liefs and oth­er cri­ter­ia have wit­nessed con­stant evol­u­tion over the past 75 years.From...
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12/07/2022
Cur­rent status of the im­ple­ment­a­tion of EU Dir­ect­ive 2019/1152 by mem­ber...
28 Oc­to­ber 2022 The EU Dir­ect­ive 2019/1152 on trans­par­ent and pre­dict­able work­ing con­di­tions in the European Uni­on sub­stan­tially ex­tends the ob­lig­a­tions of em­ploy­ers to provide in­form­a­tion on the es­sen­tial as­pects of their re­la­tion­ship with em­ploy­ees. Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the rel­ev­ant re­quire­ments in­to na­tion­al law was due by 31 Ju­ly 2022. As a res­ult, changes in em­ploy­ment law prac­tices are ex­pec­ted in the near fu­ture. The fol­low­ing is an over­view of the status of im­ple­ment­a­tion in EU mem­ber states, which is be­ing up­dated on an on­go­ing basis:
07/06/2022
Up­date on the ap­plic­a­tion of “Mac­ron scale” by French judges in case of...
Thanks to a ma­jor re­form in 2017, a stat­utory scale de­term­ines the amount of dam­ages due to the em­ploy­ee in case of un­fair dis­missal (Art­icle L.1235-3 of the La­bour Code). This scale is not ap­plic­able...
13/04/2022
LEG­AL 500 EMEA 2022
The 2022 edi­tion of the Leg­al 500 EMEA guide is out. We would par­tic­u­larly like to thank our cli­ents for put­ting their trust in us! Our law firm’s rank­ings in France, Al­ger­ia and Mo­rocco France...