At the beginning of 2016, the Union of French Football Players - UNFP - filed a complaint with other groups of athletes before the European Commission contesting the adoption, on 27 November 2015, of the French Law no. 2015- 1541 to protect high-level and professional sportsmen and to secure their legal and social situation. The Commission has decided to investigate in depth...
In essence, the UNFP criticizes the new framework adopted on 27 November 2015, which creates a fixed-term contract (Contrat à durée déterminée - CDD) specific to professional sportspeople, to violate the ESC, UNICE and CEP framework agreement 1999/70 / EC of 28 June 1999 on fixed-term...
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