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Following a refusal, the Minister of Labor, having been referred to on a hierarchical appeal, overturned that decision and authorized the dismissal. This decision was upheld by the administrative court of appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council of State, hearing an appeal brought by the employee, reaffirmed the general principle that an employer cannot delegate to a person external to the company the authority to conduct a dismissal procedure, but then confirmed the validity of the dismissal on this case on the grounds that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the procedure had been conducted by members of the human resources function of another group company, assigned to provide assistance in personnel management, pursuant to an intra-group agreement, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the president of the employing company had issued specific delegations of authority to employees of that entity to conduct the said procedure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days earlier, the Court of cassation had set out two criteria for an employee to validly sign the dismissal letter of a colleague from another entity within the same group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>first, the signatory must be responsible for human resources management within the employing entity;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>second, they must belong to the parent company or to another group entity exercising authority over the employer (<em>Court of cassation, 1st April 2026, n\u00b024-18.946<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council of State\u2019s ruling illustrates a situation in which one entity exercises such authority over another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council of State, 7 April 2026, n\u00b0499350 The Council of State rules that a person belonging to a group entity other than the company employing a protected employee may conduct the latter&#8217;s dismissal procedure and, in particular, chair the meeting at which the works council (Comit\u00e9 social et \u00e9conomique) was consulted on the proposed dismissal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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