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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Rights and guarantees for disabled workers.

Article L5213-6

In order to guarantee compliance with the principle of equal treatment with regard to disabled workers, the employer shall take, depending on the needs in a specific situation, the appropriate measure…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Placement and support for jobseekers.

Article L5312-12-2

Pôle emploi will give an explicit decision on any request from an employer concerning one of its corporate officers or a person holding a corporate office whose purpose is to determine whether he or s…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Rights of foreign employees.

Article L8252-4

The sums due to the foreign national not authorised to work, in the cases provided for in 1° to 3° of article L. 8252-2, are paid to him/her by the employer within thirty days of the offence being det…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The special register of individual entrepreneurs with limited liability.

Article R526-20-1

When the individual limited liability entrepreneur transfers to the jurisdiction of another court the establishment where the professional activity in respect of which he has made a declaration of ass…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 1: Verification of claims.

Article R624-2

The list of claims containing the information provided for in article L. 622-25 and in article R. 622-23 together with the proposals of the mandataire judiciaire and the observations of the debtor, wi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: General provisions

Article D48-2-4

When the public prosecutor receives the convicted person against whom a deferred committal order has been issued, he or she informs him or her of the prison in which he or she is to be incarcerated, a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Allocation of seats

Article R2344-1

The number of seats on the special negotiating body and the European works council set up in the absence of an agreement for each of the States mentioned in Article L. 2341-1 is set according to the f…

AI translation · Updated 4 Nov 2023Open Article
French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Hyperbaric prevention advisor

Article R4461-4

I. - The employer shall appoint a person to act as hyperbaric prevention advisor. Under the employer's responsibility, this advisor shall participate in particular in :1° In the risk assessment provid…

AI translation · Updated 3 Nov 2023Open Article
French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 3: Elections to the boards of the various councils

Article R4125-28

At the first meeting following the renewal by half and under the chairmanship of the oldest member, the Board concerned, meeting in plenary session, shall elect its Chairman and the other members of t…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 5: Wholesale distribution

Article R5124-60

The pharmaceutical establishment of a company or organisation mentioned in article R. 5124-2 engaged in the wholesale, free transfer or wholesale distribution of medicinal products mentioned in 1° of…

AI translation · Updated 2 Nov 2023Open Article
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