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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Benefits in kind

Article D3231-14

In all cases where an employee, with board and lodging, receives remuneration in cash in excess of the minimum resulting from the provisions of this sub-section, the application of these provisions sh…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Liens and insurance

Article D3253-2

The maximum guarantee provided for in 4° of Article L. 3253-8 is equal to : 1° Three times the monthly ceiling used to calculate social security contributions, for one and a half months' salary; 2° Tw…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Supplementary provisions

Article D3154-5

When an employee requests, in agreement with his employer, the deposit of all the rights acquired on his time savings account, converted into monetary units, the sums are transferred by the latter to…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Information annexed to the pay slip

Article D3171-11

In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, employees are informed of the number of hours of compensatory rest and mandatory time off credited to them by means of a document attached to the pay s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Benefits in kind

Article D3231-8

The provisions of this sub-section do not apply to employees in agricultural occupations, merchant navy seagoing personnel, caretakers and employees of residential buildings and domestic servants when…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy

Article D3142-67

The employee informs the employer of his intention either to be re-employed or to terminate his employment contract by any means giving a date certain, at least three months before the end of his leav…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sole subsection: Supplementary provisions

Article D3142-81

In the absence of the agreement referred to inArticle L. 3142-129, in undertakings with fewer than three hundred employees, the level provided for inArticle L. 3142-128 is set at 2% of the total numbe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employees working the same shift pattern

Article D3171-2

…are employed externally, this timetable is displayed in the establishment to which they are attached.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Employees working the same shift pattern

Article D3171-3

Any change to the collective timetable will be posted under the same conditions.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Supplementary provisions

Article D3154-3

The financial guarantee may only result from a guarantee undertaking given by : 1° A mutual guarantee company; 2° A collective guarantee body; 3° An insurance company; 4° A bank; 5° A financial instit…

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