1) Publication of law n° 2016-1088 du 8 août 2016 called « Loi travail » (Employment Law) in the JO of 9th August. Many provisions require a decree before coming into force. Henceforth, company-wide agreements in respect of working hours will prevail over the extended Collective Bargaining Agreement; it amends the rules for altering and terminating collective agreements, and entirely changes the law on collective bargaining. It clears up various issues in relation to the Works Council and Health & Safety Committee raised by the Act of Parliament known as the loi Rebsamen dated 17th August 2015, alters the procedure for physical disability, redefines redundancy criteria, and allows agreements to be signed for the purpose of safeguarding and fostering employment.
2) Creation of automated processing of personal data to allow implementation of a personal account for preventing strenuousness. The text details the purposes of the automated processing, the data used, the source of the information and the length of retention time (décret n° 2016-1102 du 11 août 2016, JO du 13)
3) Publication of the implementing decree to the health law, on banning of vaping « in places of collective use», including workplaces. Companies may provide in accordance with the CHSCT (Health and Safety Commission) or failing that, with the staff representatives and the occupational physician, ad hoc rooms for smokers and vapors. They must be equipped with a device to evacuate air by mechanical ventilation, have automatic closing doors and occupy no more than 20% of the total floor space of the establishment, without exceeding 35 m2 (Décret n° 2016-1117 du 11 août 2016, JO 14).