13 new come into force on 1 January 2016. Some are welcomed with a smile as the drop in fuel prices, others with a face … Make your market, and here are thirteen reforms that take effect on the day of New Year’s Eve.
The bonus replaces the RSA business activity and employment bonus from 1 January 2016. This financial aid is intended for the poorest workers. It must encourage this disadvantaged public to regain employment.
The premium segment is open to young professionals from 18 years, employees and apprentices students meet the criteria determined by the text.
This amount is an additional resource is paid monthly. Recipients must report their quarterly earnings; quarterly…
CAF said that the current beneficiaries of the RSA will be switched automatically to the premium business.
Distinguish own vehicles and other…
The certificate CRIT’Air appeared. This document gives a green dot, violet, yellow or orange depending on the pollution level of your vehicle. It costs 5 Euros and is not required (note: for now). It allows, in the big cities: In the age of e-mails and SMS, timbre seems increasingly obsolete yet it still exists.
It increases by 3.6% on 1 January 2016. It will increase from 76-80 Euro cents for priority letter and 68-70 cents for a green letter.
Taxi drivers were the first victims of the lack of visibility of price shopping. To end the vagueness which affected the image of the profession, now the rules are simplified and clarified.
Each regional prefect issued December 23, 2015 the rates applicable in each department. The drivers have two months to change their meter. Beyond February 23, 2016, they may be fined.
From 1 March 2016 flat rates were introduced for taxis between the Rosy, Only and Paris:
Between Paris airport – Charles de Gaulle and Paris right bank: € 50
On 1 January 2016 will go down in private. Gone are the only Social Security to cover the care of employees in reflective accessories, the employer must now have subscribed mutual. It is an obligation…
The law was passed June 14, 2013 and provided its generalization on 1 January 2016.
The employer’s contribution must be at least 50%, the remainder being borne by the employee.
Employers should make you play sports. From 1 January 2016, if you are traveling by bicycle, they will benefit from a tax reduction.
The employer will benefit from this tax reduction if he puts the bicycles available to its employees.
A bicycle mileage allowance (IKV) for employees who use this mode of transport should also be established.
In this context businesses are forced to provide parking spaces for bicycles. Everyone remembers the events of bikers against the obligation to operate a safety vest on the back. The project has been removed, but instead from 1 January 2016, the bikers will don the famous fluorescent jacket when they stop in an emergency. If they wear yellow or orange vest they will be fined … They will also be sanctioned if they do not present the famous safety equipment during a check…
The cyclists riding at night or day outside built by poor visibility will also wear the vest…
The measure was pushed back a few months, but it was expected that from 1 January 2016, traders no longer had the right to give disposable plastic bags to their customers. Only reusable bags or paper bags, fabric etc … can be used from April. Merchants have time to prepare.
In one year the ban will be extended:
To plastic bags for single use for the packaging of goods at point of sale other than carrier bags except for compostable bags made of home composting and bio-based materials, that is to say based plant material, Non-biodegradable plastic packaging and non-compostable in home composting, for sending the media and advertising (blister packaging).
In 2020 the ban will extend to plastic disposable tableware (Art73 of the Law on energy transition).
Every year 80,000 consumer disputes oppose customers to merchants, artisans, insurers, banks or administration…
These conflicts, which can escalate, clog the courts, police, and gendarmerie. In an attempt to provide a rapid and concrete response to the complainants, on 1 January 2016 is set up the widespread mediation service.
The disgruntled consumer can alert the relevant services through IT. The mediator then has 90 days to find a solution:
People are free to accept or refuse the proposed solution.
Participation in mediation does not exclude the possibility of an appeal before a court.
The proposed solution may be different from the decision to be made by a judge.
The professional must provide the consumer with the coordinated or mediators which it belongs. This information should be legible on its website or on the order form.
The interest loan is one of the levers that would boost home ownership for households with limited incomes.
The ceilings have been revised upwards. From the 1st January 2016 singles contenders can earn on average 1,000 Euros and 2,000 Euros more for couples with 2 children who wear reflective tape on clothing.
Reform of the map of regions of France enters into force officially on 1 January 2016.
The name and capital of each region will be determined by decree on 1 October 2016.
Many retirees’ migrant workers live in precarious conditions in France due to lack of resource. These seniors do not have the means to return to their country of origin.
From 1 January 2016, the government will help these people to return to their country of origin by supporting them in the family and social reintegration. Financial assistance is to retire at which the recipient could claim (less than 6600 Euros per year).
The last change is much more nebulous. A code was created to clarify the relationship between the public (Editor’s note: in the broad sense) and administration. It comes into force on 1 January 2016. For the editors, too often the texts were not specific enough or too left room for interpretation.