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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Operation

Article L23-114-2

…ars on the electoral propaganda of employee trade union organisations in accordance with Article L. 23-112-2 and former members of the Commission also benefit from this protection, under the condition…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter XI: Sharing capital gains on the sale of shares with company employees

Article L23-11-3

The sharing contract referred to in Article L. 23-11-2 shall benefit all employees present in the company or companies mentioned in article L. 23-11-1 for all or part of the period between the date it…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Functioning of committees

Article R23-113-1

For the application of the second paragraph of Article L. 23-114-1, an employee who benefits from delegation hours on behalf of one or more employees of the committee shall inform his employer of the…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-7

In companies subject to the obligation to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the Labour Code and which, at the end of the last financial year, fell into the category of small and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Functioning of committees

Article R23-113-2

…inted him. This request, to which the information provided for in the third paragraph of article L. 23-114-1 is attached, specifies: 1° The identity of the employee and the number of hours for which r…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Administrative penalties

Article L232-23-3-9

…l or any other person who assists a person in violating the prohibition provided for in articles L. 232-23 and L. 232-23-4 and persons who have committed a breach of article L. 232-10-3 or article L.…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section IX: Debates.

Article 23-1

If one of the parties is deaf, the judge shall designate to assist him or her, by non-appealable order, an interpreter in sign language or in completed spoken language, or any qualified person who has…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Loss of French nationality

Article 23-8

French nationality shall be lost by any French person who, being employed in a foreign army or public service or in an international organisation to which France does not belong or more generally prov…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Loss of French nationality

Article 23-6

The loss of French nationality may be established by judgement when the person concerned, French by descent, does not have possession of French nationality and has never had his or her habitual reside…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Loss of French nationality

Article 23-3

French nationals lose their French nationality if they exercise the option to renounce their French nationality in the cases provided for in Articles 18-1, 19-4 and 22-3.

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