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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 3: Organisational requirements

Article D420-2

The manager of a trading platform and its members synchronise the professional clocks used to record the date and time of any reportable event.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Study agreement

Article D1143-2

The study agreement is concluded after consulting the social and economic committee, if any.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Monthly statement of employment contracts

Article D1221-28

The provisions of this subsection apply to undertakings and establishments with fifty or more employees.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Monthly statement of employment contracts

Article D1221-29

Within the first eight days of each month, the employer must send the DARES (Direction de l'animation de la recherche, des études et des statistiques) a statement of the employment contracts concluded…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Absence due to illness or accident

Article D1226-2

The periods of compensation are increased by ten days for each full period of five years of seniority in addition to the period of one year required by Article L. 1226-1, without each of them exceedin…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Common provisions

Article D1233-2

The employment zones mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of article L. 1233-5 are those referenced in the atlas of employment zones drawn up by the Institut national de la statistique et des études…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Groups of employers falling within the scope of the same collective agreement

Article D1253-2

The information note, dated and signed by the person authorised for this purpose by the employers' group, is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Lump-sum compensation in the event of a conciliation agreement.

Article D1235-21

The scale mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 1235-1 is defined as follows:two months' salary if the employee has been with the employer for less than one year; -three months' salary if the…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Appeals

Article D1242-2

Any employer, with the exception of the agricultural professions, may enter into a fixed-term employment contract, pursuant to 1° of article L. 1242-3, with a person aged over 57 who has been register…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Retirement

Article D1237-2

The salary to be taken into consideration for the calculation of the retirement indemnity is, depending on the formula most advantageous to the person concerned, either one-twelfth of the remuneration…

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