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

Article L3121-64

I.-The agreement providing for the conclusion of individual fixed-term agreements in hours or days over the year determines : 1° The categories of employees who may enter into an individual lump-sum a…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Public policy

Article L3122-13

A night worker who wishes to take up or return to a day job and an employee in a day job who wishes to take up or return to a night job in the same establishment or, failing that, in the same company,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Equal treatment with full-time employees

Article L3123-5

…been employed on a full-time basis, with periods not worked being taken into account in full. The redundancy payment and the retirement payment for an employee who has been employed full-time and part…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Employment contract

Article L3123-6

A part-time employee's contract of employment must be in writing. It shall state : 1° The employee's qualifications, the elements of remuneration, the planned weekly or monthly working time and, excep…

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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
Paragraph 1: Introduction of part-time working arrangements

Article L3123-18

…mployer to : 1° Offer the part-time employee a full-time job or a job at least equal to the minimum duration mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 3123-7 which does not fall within his profes…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Allocation of working hours

Article L3123-23

…Action Sociale et des Familles may define the distribution of working hours for part-time employees during the working day. If this distribution includes more than one interruption of activity or an i…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Allocation of working hours

Article L3123-25

…tting of a minimum period of continuous work and a limit on the number of interruptions of activity during the same day.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Cleaning and maintenance work on industrial premises.

Article L3132-8

When an industrial or commercial establishment grants weekly rest on the same day to all employees, this rest may be reduced to half a day for employees assigned to the cleaning of industrial premises…

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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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