Clément Acar
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Teaching and training

My teaching activities are divided into two areas. On the one hand, university teaching, delivered within universities at undergraduate and graduate level.

On the other hand, continuing education for legal professionals (lawyers, legal departments, human resources departments), whether generalists or specialists in social security law.

Courses and training programmes

University

At the university

Seminars and lectures at both undergraduate and graduate level, in labour law, social protection law and procedure.

Legal professionals

For legal professionals

Continuing education for lawyers, whether generalists or specialists, and in-house counsel: legal updates, litigation, audit and recovery.

Businesses

For businesses

Legal departments and human resources teams: securing payroll practices, preparing for and managing an URSSAF audit, supplementary social protection.

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Background

My experience

Courses and training programmes delivered at universities and as part of continuing professional education.

University — undergraduate seminars

Labour law

Third-year undergraduate

  • The sources of labour law and how they interrelate
  • The employer's powers, discrimination and freedoms within the company
  • Business transfers, and the modification and suspension of the employment contract
  • Working time: on-call duty, day-rate arrangements, collective agreements
  • Wages and related benefits
  • Dismissal and other ways of terminating the employment contract
  • Methodology of the case study and case-law commentary

Civil procedure

Third-year undergraduate

  • The right of action and the claim: conditions for bringing an action, standing to sue
  • Means of defence: defence on the merits, procedural objections, grounds of inadmissibility
  • The guiding principles of proceedings under the Code of Civil Procedure: rights of the defence, adversarial principle, party disposition principle
  • Guiding principles outside the code: concentration of pleas, fairness of proceedings
  • The judgment: res judicata, service, provisional enforcement
  • Ordinary means of appeal and the devolutive effect of appeal

Law of security interests

Third-year undergraduate

  • Formation of the guarantee (cautionnement): handwritten statement, joint and several liability, scope of the commitment
  • Termination of the guarantee: coverage obligation and payment obligation
  • The fate of the commitment in the event of the guarantor's death or a merger affecting the debtor or creditor
  • The guarantor's remedies and defences, including the benefit of subrogation
  • The reform of security law resulting from the ordinance of 15 September 2021
  • Security interests in property: retention-of-title clauses and pledges over stock

University — graduate lectures

Social protection law

Master's 1, Labour Law — Aix-Marseille University

  • Recovery of contributions: formal notice, amicable appeals board, payment order, late-payment surcharges and waivers
  • The URSSAF audit: contributor's rights, observation letter and adversarial period, tacit agreement, scope of circulars and instructions
  • Workplace accidents and occupational diseases
  • Social security benefits and related litigation
  • The company group insurance scheme

Social security law

Master's 1, Health Law — Université d'Évry Val d'Essonne

  • The contribution base and its recovery
  • The URSSAF audit and its litigation aftermath
  • Workplace accidents and occupational diseases
  • Social security benefits and litigation
  • Supplementary social protection in the workplace

Continuing education for lawyers — South-East Bar School

Current developments in social security and social protection law

South-East Bar School (École des Avocats du Sud-Est) — Aix-en-Provence

  • Recognition of COVID-19 as an occupational disease: occupational disease tables and allocation to the special account
  • The limitation period for actions challenging the enforceability of a workplace accident or occupational disease
  • The medical amicable appeals board and the coordination of remedies
  • The Official Bulletin of Social Security and its significance for contributors
  • Undeclared work, sham EU posting and posting fraud
  • Working time monitoring and its consequences in URSSAF audits

Social security law in individual employment relationships

South-East Bar School — Marseille, "Individual employment relationships" programme

  • The contribution base, business expenses and benefits in kind
  • Optimisation tools: works council benefits, profit-sharing, employee savings schemes
  • Supplementary social protection: health costs, group insurance, supplementary pensions
  • Recovery of contributions: social security advance ruling, late-payment surcharges, mediation, payment order
  • The accounting audit of the contribution base and the powers of recovery inspectors
  • Undeclared work and the cancellation of contribution reductions
  • Workplace accidents, occupational diseases and premium rating

From the TASS to the social division of the Tribunal de grande instance

South-East Bar School — Toulon Faculty of Law, "Le printemps des procédures" programme

The social division now forms part of the Tribunal judiciaire.

  • The division of litigation between the two court orders
  • The generalisation of the mandatory prior appeal and the amendment of time limits
  • The creation of the medical amicable appeals board: composition, referral, decision
  • The unified court: referral, social case management, reconciling oral and written procedure
  • The powers of the social case management judge and the sorting order
  • Litigation over workplace accident premium rating