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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Secondment contract and timeshare company.

Article L1252-12

The timeshare company can provide its user companies with advice on skills management and training.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Purpose.

Article L1253-1

Groups of persons falling within the scope of the same collective agreement may be formed for the purpose of making available to their members employees who are bound to these groups by a contract of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Constitution and membership.

Article L1253-3

The following are also considered to be employer groups: 1° Existing cooperative societies which develop, for the exclusive benefit of their members, the activities mentioned in article L. 1253-1 ; 2°…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Employers' group made up of private-sector members and local authorities.

Article L1253-19

With the aim of promoting the development of employment in a given area, private-sector entities may set up, with local authorities and their public establishments or with public establishments of the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Employers' group made up of private-sector members and local authorities.

Article L1253-20

The tasks entrusted to employees of the grouping who are made available to a local authority may not constitute the grouping's main activity. The time devoted by each employee to tasks carried out on…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Form, content and transmission of the contract

Article L1254-15

…arges, management costs and, where applicable, professional expenses; c) Where applicable, the procedures for deducting professional expenses; d) A description of the skills, qualifications and areas…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: The commercial freelance administration contract

Article L1254-22

The freelance administration company concludes a commercial freelance administration service contract with the client company of the supported employee no later than two working days following the sta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Portage salarial

Article L1255-16

The following is punishable by a fine of €3,750 if a client company: 1° Employs a ported employee outside the cases provided for in Article L. 1254-3 ; 2° Disregards the prohibitions on employing a po…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1261-2

…established outside France that second staff to the national territory, in accordance with the procedures defined by decree of the Conseil d'Etat.

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

Article L1251-55

…ority in the temporary employment undertaking, seniority is assessed by adding together the periods during which these employees have been linked to the temporary employment undertaking by assignment…

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