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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: Penalties.

Article L1225-71

Failure by the employer to comply with the provisions of articles L. 1225-1 to L. 1225-28 and L. 1225-35 to L. 1225-69 may give rise, in favour of the employee, to the award of compensation determined…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Absence due to illness or accident.

Article L1226-1-1

…for by the same decree. The decree mentioned in the first paragraph of this article determines the duration and conditions of implementation of the derogations and may give them retroactive effect, u…

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

Article L1226-22

In the event of safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings, the provisions relating to employee claims mentioned in Articles L. 3253-15, L. 3253-19 to L. 3253-21 are applicable to t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1227-1

…a maximum period of five years, a ban on civic, civil and family rights as provided for in article 131-26 of the Criminal Code.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1231-1

…reement, under the conditions set out in the provisions of this Title.These provisions do not apply during the trial period.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Employee advisor.

Article L1232-12

The employer grants the employee adviser, at the latter's request, leave of absence for training purposes. These authorisations are granted up to a maximum of two weeks per three-year period following…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Procedure for consulting employee representatives specific to collective redundancies.

Article L1233-9

In companies with a central company social and economic committee, the employer convenes a meeting of the central social and economic committee and the social and economic committee(s) of the establis…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Informing the administrative authority.

Article L1233-19

An employer who makes collective redundancies for economic reasons of less than ten employees within the same thirty-day period shall inform the administrative authority of the redundancy(ies) decided…

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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

The administrative authority may submit any proposal to complete or modify the job protection plan, taking into account the economic situation of the company.These proposals are formulated before the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Donation of rest days to a parent of a deceased or seriously ill child

Article L1225-65-2

The particular seriousness of the illness, disability or accident referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 1225-65-1, as well as the indispensable nature of a sustained presence and constraini…

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