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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Open-ended employment contracts

Article L1254-21

…ion services and the supported employee: 1° The methods for calculating and paying the remuneration due to the supported employee for carrying out the service, the business contribution allowance, soc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Portage salarial

Article L1255-18

…expense of the convicted contractor or client company, under the conditions provided for inArticle 131-35 of the Criminal Code, and its publication, in full or in excerpts, in the publications that it…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Trial period.

Article L1251-15

The remuneration for the trial period may not differ from that provided for in the assignment contract.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Status of permanent and temporary employees of the temporary employment agency.

Article L1251-56

…st have been with the temporary employment undertaking is determined by adding together the periods during which these employees were bound to their employer by assignment contracts.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article L1252-2

…s to make available to user undertakings qualified staff that they are unable to recruit themselves due to their size or resources.Employees are made available for assignments that may be full-time or…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Constitution and membership.

Article L1253-6

When an employers' group is set up, it informs the Labour Inspectorate. The list of members of the grouping is kept permanently available for inspection by the labour inspectorate referred to in artic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Conditions and prohibitions on the use of freelance administration services

Article L1254-4

…rovided for in article L. 4154-1, unless an exemption is provided for in the same article. II - The duration of this service may not exceed thirty-six months.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Temporary work.

Article L1255-4

Any user who uses a temporary employee for a purpose other than that provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 1251-6 or outside the cases mentioned in that same article is liable to a fine of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Conditions of secondment.

Article L1262-1

…tract exists between the employer and the employee and that their employment relationship continues during the period of secondment.The secondment is carried out :1° Either on behalf and under the dir…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Fixing the term and duration of the contract.

Article L1251-12

The agreement or the extended branch agreement of the user company may set the total duration of the assignment contract. This duration may neither have the purpose nor the effect of permanently filli…

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