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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article L3121-54

A fixed number of hours may be worked on a weekly, monthly or annual basis. Days are calculated on an annual basis.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Supplementary provisions.

Article L3121-40

In the absence of an agreement, the Social and Economic Committee is consulted at least once a year on the arrangements for using the annual overtime quota and any excess.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Superior Court of Arbitration.

Article L2524-9

Where the Superior Court of Arbitration annuls an arbitral award in whole or in part, it shall refer the case back to the parties who shall appoint a new arbitrator if they so agree. If, following a n…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Referee.

Article L2524-5

Agreements or arbitration awards made in application of this Title shall have the same effect as collective labour agreements. They are applicable, unless otherwise stipulated, from the day following…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Public policy

Article L3122-4

…which provide goods and services and which are located in the areas referred to in Article L. 3132-24, the period of night work, if it begins after 10 p.m., is at least seven consecutive hours, includ…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Scope of collective bargaining

Article L3121-14

An agreement or an extended branch agreement may institute a working time equivalent to the legal working time for the professions and jobs mentioned in article L. 3121-13. This agreement determines t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Continuous work.

Article L3132-14

In industries or industrial undertakings, a company or establishment agreement or, failing that, an extended branch agreement or convention may provide for the possibility of organising work on a cont…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 7: Exercising a mandate

Article L3123-14

The monthly working time of a part-time employee may not be reduced by more than one third by the use of the credit hours to which he is entitled for the exercise of mandates he holds within a company…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Scope of collective bargaining.

Article L3121-64

…ed in the package, up to a limit of two hundred and eighteen days in the case of a package of days; 4° The conditions under which absences, arrivals and departures during the period are taken into acc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter XI: Members of a regional cross-industry joint committee

Article L243-11-1

…procedure provided for in this book shall be punishable by the penalty provided for in Article L. 2432-1.

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