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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Working conditions.

Article L1251-22

…scheme, employees are monitored by specifically approved occupational health and prevention services.Where the user undertaking has its own occupational health and prevention service, employees may b…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Working conditions.

Article L1251-23

Personal protective equipment is provided by the user undertaking.However, certain personalised personal protective equipment, defined by collective labour agreement, may be supplied by the temporary…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Working conditions.

Article L1251-24

…nsport and the collective facilities, in particular catering facilities, available to those employees. Where additional expenses are incurred by the social and economic committee, these are reimbursed…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation.

Article L2353-20

When a meeting is organised with the Bureau, the members of the European Company Works Council representing employees directly affected by the measures in question may take part in this meeting.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation.

Article L2353-21

Documents sent to employee representatives include at least one version in French.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation.

Article L2353-25

…mpany committee and at meetings of the bureau is not deducted from these one hundred and twenty hours.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Operation.

Article L2353-24

The operating expenses of the European Company Committee and its Bureau shall be borne by the European Company, which shall provide the employee representatives with the financial and material resourc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Infringements of the rules concerning work by young people and by pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding.

Article L4743-2

…ce of vagrants, persons without means of support or beggars, in breach of the provisions of article L. 4153-7. Conviction automatically entails the removal of guardianship. Fathers and mothers may be…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter VIII: Transferable securities issued by joint stock companies.

Article L228-29-7-2

I.-This article applies to the intermediaries mentioned in 1° to 4° of I of article L. 228-2 when they provide services to shareholders or other intermediaries in relation to the shares of companies t…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Chapter III: Offences relating to cheques and other non-cash money instruments

Article L163-2

…instructs the drawee to pay, shall be liable to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 375,000 euros. The same penalties shall apply to any person knowingly agreeing to receive or endorse a cheque is…

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