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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals.

Article L1242-2

…ended collective labour agreement, it is common practice not to use open-ended employment contracts due to the nature of the activity carried out and the temporary nature of these jobs. When the durat…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Early termination of the contract.

Article L1243-2

…a period of notice calculated on the basis of one day per week, taking into account : 1° The total duration of the contract including, where applicable, its one or two renewals, where it includes a s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Successive contracts with the same employee.

Article L1244-2

…ed by the employee if no offer of re-employment is made. To calculate the employee's seniority, the duration of successive seasonal employment contracts with the same company is added together.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Reclassification of the contract.

Article L1245-2

When a request is made to the industrial tribunal to reclassify a fixed-term employment contract as an open-ended contract, the case is referred directly to the tribunal, which gives a decision on the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter VIII: Criminal provisions.

Article L1248-2

Concluding a fixed-term employment contract for a purpose other than that provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 1242-2 or outside the cases provided for in that same article and in article…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Definitions.

Article L1251-2

A temporary work contractor is any natural or legal person whose sole activity is to make employees available on a temporary basis to user companies, whom it recruits and remunerates on the basis of a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: The "portage salarial" company

Article L1254-24

The freelance administration company carries out the activity of freelance administration on an exclusive basis. Only a freelance administration company may enter into freelance administration employm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Remuneration.

Article L1251-20

…the same site, benefit from this indemnity. This allowance, calculated in accordance with the procedures set out in articles L. 5424-6 to L. 5424-19, is paid by the temporary employment agency and is…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Constitution and membership.

Article L1253-2

Employers' groups are set up in one of the following forms: 1° Association governed by the law of 1st July 1901 relating to the contract of association ; 2° A cooperative company within the meaning of…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 5: The "portage salarial" company

Article L1254-29

…rvices under employment contracts concluded with this company for a period of at least three months during the last calendar year.

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