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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose of agreements.

Article L2221-1

This Book relates to the determination of collective relations between employers and employees. It defines the rules governing the exercise of employees' right to collective bargaining on all their te…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Disabled workers

Article L2241-13

The organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements meet to negotiate, every three years, on measures aimed at the professional integration and continued employm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Labour agreements concluded in the public sector.

Article L2233-1

In public undertakings and public establishments of an industrial or commercial nature and public establishments determined by decree which perform both an administrative and an industrial and commerc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings.

Article L2262-13

It is up to the party challenging the legality of a collective agreement to show that it does not comply with the legal conditions governing it.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings.

Article L2262-15

If the court annuls all or part of a collective agreement or convention, it may decide, if it appears to it that the retroactive effect of this annulment is likely to have manifestly excessive consequ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions.

Article L2281-1

Employees have the right to express themselves directly and collectively on the content, conditions and organisation of their work.Individual access to the right of collective expression may be ensure…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Denunciation by one of the signatory employers or employees.

Article L2261-11

Where the denunciation is made by only some of the signatory employers or signatory employees, it does not prevent the agreement from remaining in force between the other signatory parties. In this ca…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings.

Article L2262-10

Where an action arising out of the agreement or arrangement is brought either by a person or by an organisation or grouping, any organisation or grouping with legal standing, whose members are bound b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for exercising general powers

Article L2312-13

The Social and Economic Committee carries out regular inspections of health, safety and working conditions. It conducts investigations into accidents at work and occupational or work-related illnesses…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Criminal provisions.

Article L2263-1

When, in application of an express legislative provision in a given matter, an agreement or an extended collective labour agreement derogates from legal provisions, infringements of the derogatory sti…

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