w.r.t ". As an employer if I allow you to change your permanent address to France am I bound to manage your employment under French labor law?", IANAL either, b

w.r.t ". As an employer if I allow you to change your permanent address to France am I bound to manage your employment under French labor law?", IANAL either, but I know for a fact that this is the case. The tax man wants his cut, so the employer would have to establish a (subsidiary) company in France, and that becomes the local employer. There's absolutely no way you could be an employee (in the French labor law sense, which is very specific) of any foreign company while working in France (that would be "clandestine labor", see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travail_dissimul%C3%A9_en_France https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travail_dissimul%C3%A9_en_Fran...). It's not specific to France, either. All countries need their tax base (well not just taxation, there's also retirement/joblessness/healthcare contributions, etc...).