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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Status of employees.

Article D5424-21

The date of resumption of work for an unemployed employee is decided by the employer or the project manager's representative on the worksite. The employee will be informed of this date by means of a n…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Status of employees.

Article D5424-22

Except in the case of serious misconduct on the part of the person concerned or in the event of work being stopped by the project manager on public works sites, the company may not dismiss an employee…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Reimbursement by the employer.

Article D5424-26

The employer is paid 85% of the amount obtained in article D. 5424-25 when the total payroll exceeds three times the amount of the allowance provided for in the same article and 90% when the total pay…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Title IV: RIGHT TO STAY ON FRENCH TERRITORY

Article L542-2

Notwithstanding Article L. 542-1, the right to remain on French territory ends:1° As soon as the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons has taken the following decisions:a)…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 4: Guarantee for sureties.

Article D313-26

…R. 261-24 du code de la construction et de l'habitation et des articles 6 et 15 de la loi n° 84-595 du 12 juillet 1984 définissant la location-accession à la propriété immobilière ; 6° Artic…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 2: General rules governing general-purpose investment funds

Article L214-24-32

The provisions of articles L. 224-1, L. 224-2, the second paragraph of article L. 225-2, articles L. 225-3 to L. 225-16, L. 225-25, L. 225-26, L. 225-258 to L. 225-270, the fourth paragraph of article…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consolidated and combined financial statements

Article L345-2

Subject to the application of the provisions of the first two paragraphs of Article L. 233-17 of the Commercial Code , except in cases where the undertakings listed below are controlled by a société d…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 4: Reduction of sentences

Article 721-2

I.-When a convicted person serving one or more custodial sentences has not been able to benefit from a measure of release on parole or conditional release under the conditions provided for in Articles…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions relating to the treatment of credit institutions, finance companies, electronic money institutions, payment institutions and investment firms in difficulty

Article L613-24

When a credit institution, finance company, electronic money institution, payment institution or one of the persons mentioned in 2° of A of I of Article L. 612-2 has been struck off or banned from act…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Other service providers

Article L775-29

I.-Subject to the provisions of II and III, the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the following table shall apply in the Wallis and Futuna Islands, in the wording indicated in the right-ha…

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