By Raphaël MORENON
4 April 2025
Despite advances in legislation and growing social awareness, discrimination remains a reality in many aspects of everyday life: in recruitment, in career development, in access to housing, credit or even certain services. For the victim, discrimination is not only a hurtful injustice, but also an obstacle that is difficult to overcome. Proving discrimination can be difficult, and taking individual action, which is often long and costly, can seem disproportionate or intimidating. However, when acts of discrimination are repeated and affect several people in a similar way as a result of the same perpetrator, French law offers a specific tool: group action. Introduced more widely by the 2016 law on the modernisation of justice in the 21st century (known as the "J21 law"), it aims to enable collective action to put a stop to these breaches and obtain compensation...
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