My personal liability as a company legal representative in France
As the legal representative of your company in France, your personal liability can be incurred by many actors, whether they’re from the company or not.
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As the legal representative of your company in France, your personal liability can be incurred by many actors, whether they’re from the company or not.
Filing corporate accounts is a legal obligation in France. As such, in order to avoid any legal trouble, you should always make sure that your company files them on time.
However, what happens to you, as director, if for one reason or another, you can’t make it?
Seasonal work refers to employment contracts that have a fixed duration, and that repeat themselves every year. In France, this type of contract is possible! However, there are a couple of rules it must follow.
“Extra hours” refers to hours employees do that their employment contracts don’t account for. These can be particularly helpful if there’s a sudden spike in activity, especially since it tends to be a lot cheaper than hiring another worker.
Sometimes, a company will try to transfer or sell its shares, so that it can get some cash or bring in a new associate. However, there are certain things you should do to make sure that both the buyer and the seller are protected.
If you’re not a French resident or an expert in French law, it can be easy to be a bit too eager when setting up a company. As such, you might end up making some mistakes when registering your business, in particular, when registering a trademark. So what are the mistakes you must avoid?
When creating a company in France, one of the first things you need to do is build up your “social capital”. To do this, the associates need to make contributions to the capital of your company. There are 3 different types of contributions:
While it’s easy to determine the value of contributions in cash (giving a certain amount of money to the company), finding the value of contributions in kind (giving a certain asset to the company) can be more complicated.
Depositing a trademark is one of the most important steps when creating a company. However, in France, it can also be surprisingly complex
As you would expect, each country has a different set of regulations when it comes to hiring staff. In France, you want to avoid making these 8 big job interview mistakes.
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