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

Article L243-11-1

Breaking the employment contract of an employee who is a member of the regional cross-industry joint committee referred to in Article L. 23-111-1, of an employee appearing on the electoral propaganda…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Special provisions for public services.

Article L2512-3

In the event of a concerted stoppage of work by the staff referred to in article L. 2512-1, the time at which work is stopped and the time at which it is resumed may not be different for the various c…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Public companies and public industrial and commercial establishments.

Article L2522-11

The agreements reached at the end of the conciliation between the parties involved in this procedure are recorded in the minutes of the meetings and are binding on the parties.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter II: Collective bargaining - Collective labour agreements.

Article L2622-2

Where a national collective labour agreement applies in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Mayotte, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, arrangements for adapti…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Group Committee.

Article L2632-2

The provisions relating to the Group Works Council set out in Articles L. 2331-1 to L. 2331-4 and L. 2331-6 apply to dominant undertakings whose registered office is located in a department of mainlan…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Supplementary provisions

Article L3121-8

In the absence of the agreements provided for in Articles L. 3121-6 and L. 3121-7 : 1° The employment contract may set the remuneration for meal and break times; 2° The employment contract provides ei…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Public policy.

Article L3121-30

Overtime may be worked up to an annual quota. Hours worked in excess of this annual quota give entitlement to compulsory time off in lieu. The hours taken into account for the calculation of the annua…

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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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