On November 3, 2011, the Labor Chamber of the French Court of Cassation (the “Court”) upheld a decision against a company that unlawfully used a geolocation device to track the company car of one of its salesmen. Although the company notified the salesman that a geolocation device would be used to optimize productivity by analyzing the time he spent on business trips, the device was in fact used to monitor his working hours, which ultimately led to a pay cut.
Read more about the case and relevant French law on Hunton & Williams Privacy and Information Security Law Blog. French employers do not seem to get cut as much slack as American employers when it comes to monitoring employees.