In France, in order to make an employee redundant, the employer needs to be able to show that the position or duties carried out by the employee in question need to be removed for objective economic reasons such as major economic/financial difficulties, technological change, restructuring of the business necessary for the protection of the competitiveness of the company or termination of the activities of the company.
The procedure for one employee involves offering the applicable retraining programme (Contrat de sécurisation professionnelle or congé de reclassement), seeking re-deployment positions in France, summoning the employee to an initial meeting, holding the initial meeting and sending the redundancy letter and notification to the local employment authorities.
The procedure for redundancies of more than one employee is slightly more complex and the procedure to be followed would also depend on the headcount of the company.