Juridique et Administratif

💵 Loi n°2023-1107 du 29 Novembre 2023, en France, stipule une obligation pour les entreprises d'au moins 50 salariés avec un délégué syndical de négocier des dispositifs de partage de la valeur. Ces négociations doivent inclure une augmentation exceptionnelle du bénéfice et ses modalités de partage avec les salariés. Les entreprises existantes doivent entamer les négociations avant le 30 juin 2024. Certaines entreprises bénéficient d'exemptions si elles ont déjà des accords adéquats en place.

🍽 Dalloyau, founded in 1682, transitioned from safeguarding proceedings to judicial administration in early August. With 130 employees and €11 million in revenue, Dalloyau operates 5 owned stores, 2 franchises, and 30 international outlets. The historic caterer is now seeking a buyer to avoid bankruptcy. Bids must be submitted to appointed administrators by September 12, 2024, at noon.

📈 L’Agence Régionale du Tourisme Grand Est a élaboré une stratégie "data driven" pour sa plateforme Explore Grand Est. Des efforts sont faits pour créer un centre de données européen dans le tourisme, avec des acteurs comme EONA-X, Themis-X et Uska travaillant sur l'échange de données. Le partage de données se structure à l’échelle européenne depuis la création de Gaia-X en 2021. Les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques 2024 voient des acteurs du tourisme envisager le partage de données pour améliorer l’expérience.

🛏 A Saint-Malo, a woman's legal battle against a neighboring hotel over laundry odor started in 2005. Her complaint about not enjoying her seaside second home led to a 2016 agreement for the hotel to use fragrance-free detergent. In 2021, she claimed the deal was violated, seeking €6,000 in damages. After being rejected by lower courts due to the statute of limitations, her appeal was dismissed by the Cour de cassation on July 11, 2022. Her fight with the hotel is now legally concluded.

💸 Booking fined a record-breaking €413.2 million by Spain's CNMC for abusing its dominant position, by imposing unfair terms on Spanish hotels and restricting competition from other online travel agencies, violating European law. Two fines of €206.6 million each were imposed: one for unfair conditions on hotels, and the other for restrictions on other agencies.

🛡 The article discusses illegal employment practices, focusing on irregular accumulation of jobs in France, which violates maximum working hours as per the Labor Code (article L8261-1). The legal maximum is 10 hours per day and 48 hours per week, or 44 hours averaged over 12 weeks. Employers must ensure employees do not exceed this, even with multiple contracts. Exceptions include scientific, literary, artistic work, voluntary aid, household tasks, or emergency work. Employers can include exclusivity clauses in contracts under certain conditions but not for part-time contracts. Violations can result in fines of €1,500, doubling to €3,000 for repeat offenses (articles R8262-1 and R8262-2).

🧬 "The official version of the 'Guide de bonnes pratiques d’hygiène restaurateur' was published in November 2015, available on the French Ministry of Agriculture's website. A printed version sold on Amazon is outdated and should not be used. For guidance and adherence to hygiene rules, refer only to the November 2015 edition. Contact GHR's legal service in case of doubts.

💻 Amélie Logre joined the Legal Department of GHR on May 13, specializing in IT law, after earning a Master in intellectual property law from Nantes Université and working for La Poste in Paris. The GHR addresses digital transformation challenges in the HCR sector, often constrained by financial and human resources. The GHR, a member of HOTREC and a founding member of Reform BnB, has been influential in European regulation, securing a condemnation of Booking.com and Expedia for over €400,000 and contributing to the Macron Law. The GHR also achieved the elimination of a tax advantage for furnished tourist accommodations before the Conseil d'État in 2024.

🛑 Crises such as cyberattacks, media scandals, and disasters can threaten a company's survival, necessitating rapid, efficient response strategies to minimize negative impacts. Crisis management involves prevention, preparation, intervention, and recovery, with emphasis on communication and stakeholder safety. Successful examples include Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol crisis, Airbnb's privacy violation, and United Airlines' overbooking issue. Online reputation monitoring can help anticipate crises, where Guest Suite offers tools for vigilance, satisfaction analysis, and automated feedback solicitation to improve and control online reputation for long-term resilience.

📊 Gabriel Attal, representing the incumbent government, announced a "pact of action" aimed at aligning short-stay rental taxation with long-term rental taxation, confirming a legislative intent held by various political groups excluding the extremes. The Annaïg Le Meur report, made public yesterday, suggests significant cuts in tax benefits for short-term furnished rentals. The measures included in the pact could lead to the end of the fiscal niche for short-term rentals, indicating an impending policy change post-2024.