Requalification in employment contract: The Reims Court of Appeal, on the one hand, annuls a manager-agent contract for breach of pre-contractual information vitiating his consent and, on the other hand, requalifies the contract as an employment contract (Heytens)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The authorised managers of businesses were subject to protective measures (C. com., art. L. 146-1 et seq.) by certain provisions of Act 2005-882, known as the "Dutreil" Act of 2 August 2005, which sought to exempt them from the application of even more protective provisions that apply to branch managers (C. trav., art. L. 7321-2). The decision handed down by the Reims Court of Appeal on May 15, 2013 specifies, on the one hand, the limits of the sometimes artificial exclusion from the scope of the social law of some of these authorised managers, and on the other hand, the