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Jocelyne CLERC
Heading the “Social Law” division, Jocelyne Clerc works with company executives and managers on all issues related to labor law and social protection law.
Her efforts reflect the values of ADER JOLIBOIS Law Firm: strong ethics, attentiveness, and a commitment to well-executed work.
Jocelyne Clerc holds a Specialization Certificate in social law and social security, as well as a Master’s degree in business law.
Jocelyne Clerc began her legal career in a provincial law firm, gaining experience in the criminal handling of labor law cases. She joined ADER JOLIBOIS and became a partner in 2000.
Jocelyne Clerc: Labor Law and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Jocelyne CLERC advises executives and senior managers from large corporations, mid-sized enterprises, SMEs, and startups across various sectors—from industry to services, including distribution, commerce, and media—on all aspects of employer-employee relations.
Her expertise, enriched by active monitoring of evolving regulations, allows her to incorporate the full dimension of the company and its new work models into her analysis.
The acceleration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and process digitalization means that all companies now integrate social, environmental, and economic concerns into their activities and stakeholder interactions.
Her extensive experience, coupled with impeccable responsiveness, helps resolve and soothe crisis situations within companies, providing reliable and practical solutions to the challenges raised.
Her approach aligns with the values of ADER JOLIBOIS, creating a true partnership with clients based on attentiveness, responsiveness, and trust.
Employment Law
Companies are facing an ever-evolving work environment: skill development, reduction of working hours, increasing desire to balance professional and personal life, autonomy, and the emergence of new forms of work (freelance, nomadism, wage portage, shared time, intrapreneurship, telecommuting, etc.), and process digitalization.
- Drafting employment contracts, converting fixed-term contracts to permanent contracts;
- Dismissal, mutual agreement terminations;
- Discrimination, moral and sexual harassment;
- Professional and non-professional incapacity;
- Compensation, working hours, overtime, and undeclared work;
- Elections of staff representatives (Workplace Health and Safety Committee, union delegates), relations with employee representative bodies;
- Mandatory annual negotiations (NAO), working hours, gender equality at work, quality of work life;
- Compensation policies, profit-sharing, employee stock ownership, welfare and retirement plans;
- Workplace hygiene, safety, and health: single document for occupational risk assessment (DUERP), psychosocial risks, etc.;
- Voluntary departure plans;
- Social management of restructurings, mergers, acquisitions, and business disposals (M&A), social audit of acquisition and compliance;
- Status of corporate officers, criminal liability of directors, management of the employer’s gross negligence;
- Worker mobility, expatriation.
Social Protection Law
The social security system must regularly adapt to societal changes and population needs. Compliance with health, safety, and working conditions obligations is now a major challenge for companies amid constantly evolving regulations.
- Subject to social security contributions and bases;
- Workplace hygiene, safety, and risk prevention;
- Work accidents and occupational diseases, disability;
- Representation in legal and administrative courts during disputes related to:
- Denials of coverage by the Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM) for a work accident or occupational disease;
- Partial permanent disability rates set by CPAM;
- Denials of work stoppages and payment of daily allowances;
- Support during URSSAF inspections or other social entity issues: warnings, litigation, and URSSAF or RSI collections;
- Implementation of collective social protection systems;
- Assistance in disputes related to welfare or pension schemes;
- Management of inexcusable employer faults;
- Worker mobility – expatriation.
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