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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Infringements of the rules concerning work by young people and by pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding

Article R4743-3

Employing a worker under the age of eighteen in prohibited work, in disregard of article L. 4153-8 and the decrees adopted for its application, is punishable by a fine of the fifth class. Repeated off…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter V: Infringements of the rules on occupational medicine

Article R4745-2

Failure to comply with the provisions relating to recruitment, conditions of practice, protection and professional independence enjoyed by occupational health doctors, as set out in articles L. 4623-1…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Infringements of the rules concerning work by young people and by pregnant women, women who have recently given birth or who are breastfeeding

Article R4743-1

Employing a pregnant woman, a woman who has recently given birth or a nursing mother in prohibited work, in disregard of article L. 4152-1 and the decrees adopted for its application, is punishable by…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Conclusion of the contract

Article R6222-4

The apprenticeship contract sets the salary payable to the apprentice for each of the years of the contract or the apprenticeship period. This wage may not be less than the rates set out in articles D…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Common provisions

Article R6341-24-7

The remuneration due to jobseekers and self-employed workers who do not fall into the category defined in article D. 6341-26 is set by decree according to one or more of the following criteria: 1° The…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter I: CASES IN WHICH A FOREIGNER MAY BE ASSIGNED RESIDENCE

Article L731-1

The administrative authority may place under house arrest a foreign national who cannot immediately leave French territory but whose removal remains a reasonable prospect, in the following cases:1° Th…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Title XVIII: Prosecution, investigation and trial of offences committed by legal persons

Article 706-45

The investigating judge may place the legal entity under judicial supervision under the conditions set out in articles 139 and 140 by subjecting it to one or more of the following obligations:

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Personalised pathway and republican integration contract

Article L413-6

The conditions for the application of this section, and in particular the duration of the Republican Integration Contract, the training courses provided and the conditions for monitoring and validatin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Employee savings funds

Article L214-163

I. - Unless otherwise stipulated, articles L. 214-24-24 to L. 214-26-2 apply to AIFs covered by this sub-section.II. - Company mutual funds and employee shareholding open-ended investment companies ma…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4a: Trade union audience measurement for companies with fewer than eleven employees

Article L2122-10-4

The electoral list is drawn up by the competent state authority. Voters are registered in two colleges, a "managerial" college and a "non-managerial" college, on the basis of information relating to m…

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