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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Prior interview.

Article L1233-11

An employer who is planning to make employees redundant for economic reasons, whether individually or as part of a mass redundancy scheme involving less than ten employees within the same thirty-day p…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Prior interview.

Article L1233-14

A decree in the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of this paragraph.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Successive redundancies.

Article L1233-27

When a company or establishment usually employing at least fifty employees has made redundancies for economic reasons in the course of a calendar year involving more than eighteen employees in total,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Expert assistance

Article L1233-35

The expert appointed by the social and economic committee asks the employer, within ten days of his appointment, for all the information he deems necessary to carry out his assignment. The employer re…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Informing the administrative authority.

Article L1233-49

…this plan and the information intended for the staff representatives mentioned in article L. 1233-31 are communicated to the administrative authority at the same time as the notification of the redu…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Intervention by the administrative authority concerning undertakings subject to the obligation to draw up an employment safeguard plan.

Article L1233-57-1

The majority collective agreement referred to in article L. 1233-24-1 or the document drawn up by the employer referred to in article L. 1233-24-4 shall be sent to the administrative authority for val…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation and penalties.

Article L1226-14

…t of the compensation in lieu of notice provided for in article L. 1234-5 as well as to a special redundancy payment which, in the absence of more favourable contractual provisions, is equal to double…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Compensation and penalties.

Article L1226-16

The indemnities provided for in articles L. 1226-14 and L. 1226-15 are calculated on the basis of the average salary that the person concerned would have received over the last three months if he had…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Employee with a fixed-term employment contract.

Article L1226-18

…pational disease has a fixed-term employment contract, the employer may only terminate the contract during the periods in which the contract is suspended if he can prove that the employee is guilty of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Prior interview.

Article L1232-3

During the preliminary interview, the employer will state the reasons for the proposed decision and ask the employee for explanations.

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