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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Criteria for ordering redundancies.

Article L1233-5

…ke it particularly difficult for them to return to work, in particular disabled and older employees;4° Professional qualities assessed by category.The employer may give priority to one of these criter…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 4: Professional Equality Commission

Article L2315-56

In the absence of an agreement as provided for in article L. 2315-45, in companies with at least three hundred employees, a professional equality commission is set up within the social and economic co…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rejection of the application

Article R612-52

If a patent application is rejected or liable to be rejected due to non-compliance with a time limit set by the National Institute of Industrial Property, the rejection shall not be pronounced or shal…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 4: Levies on casino gaming revenue.

Article L2333-55

…or to each public establishment when it is delegating the public service delegation of the casino, 10% of the deduction made by the State on the gross gaming revenue achieved by the establishment.The…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Provisions specific to breastfeeding

Article R1225-5

The hour provided for in article L. 1225-30 available to the employee to breastfeed her child is divided into two thirty-minute periods, one during the morning shift and the other during the afternoon…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous and transitional provisions

Article R1424-55

A joint order of the ministers in charge of civil security, the civil service and health defines the general conditions for the organisation and assessment of specific training courses directly linked…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous and transitional provisions

Article R1424-54

A joint order of the minister responsible for civil security and the minister responsible for the civil service defines the general conditions for the organisation and assessment of training courses f…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous and transitional provisions

Article R1424-53

…to be commanded by a professional firefighter by application of the second paragraph of article R. 1424-41, continue, by necessity of service, to be commanded by a volunteer firefighter. It also stipu…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 4: Miscellaneous and transitional provisions

Article R1424-52

An order of the minister responsible for civil security shall determine the composition and the conditions of wearing, during service, of firefighters' outfits and uniforms.The characteristics and des…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Rectification of material errors

Article R4126-52

The provisions of article R. 833-1 of the Code of Administrative Justice are applicable before the National Disciplinary Chamber.

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