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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Successive redundancies.

Article L1233-27

…total, without having been required to present a job protection plan in application of article L. 1233-26 or article L. 1233-28, any new redundancies envisaged during the first three months of the fo…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: General provisions.

Article L1231-2

The provisions of this Title do not derogate from legal provisions providing special protection for certain employees.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Employee with a fixed-term employment contract.

Article L1226-21

…on of the fixed-term employment contract by the employer in breach of the provisions of article L. 1226-8 entitles the employee to compensation corresponding to the loss suffered. This compensation ma…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Informing the administrative authority.

Article L1233-20

The minutes of the meeting of the social and economic committee consulted on a collective redundancy project for economic reasons are sent to the administrative authority.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Possibility of an agreement and specific terms and conditions resulting therefrom.

Article L1233-21

By way of derogation from the rules on consultation of employee representative bodies laid down in this Title and in Book III of Part Two, a company, group or branch agreement may lay down the terms a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions specific to the departments of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin.

Article L1226-23

An employee whose employment contract is suspended for a personal reason beyond his control and for a relatively insignificant period is entitled to continue to receive his salary. However, during the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Employee with a fixed-term employment contract.

Article L1226-20

…ployee holds a fixed-term contract, the provisions of the second and last paragraphs of article L. 1226-12 and articles L. 1226-14 to L. 1226-16, relating to the conditions for dismissal of an employe…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Provisions specific to the departments of Moselle, Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin.

Article L1226-24

…void.A commercial clerk is an employee who, employed by a trader within the meaning of Article L. 121-1 of the French Commercial Code, performs commercial duties in the service of customers.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Possibility of an agreement and specific terms and conditions resulting therefrom.

Article L1233-24

Any action to challenge all or part of an agreement provided for in article L. 1233-21 must be brought, on pain of inadmissibility, before the expiry of a period of three months from the date of filin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Notice and compensation in lieu of notice.

Article L1234-2

…ent contract setting a shorter notice period than that resulting from the provisions of article L. 1234-1 or a longer service requirement than that set out in those same provisions is null and void.

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