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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Help with professional integration

Article L5134-113

Aid for future employment is granted for a minimum of twelve months and a maximum of thirty-six months, without being able to exceed the term of the employment contract. Where the aid was initially gr…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Conditions for salaried employment.

Article L5221-5

A foreign national authorised to reside in France may not engage in paid employment in France without first obtaining the work permit referred to in 2° of article L. 5221-2. A work permit is automatic…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Employer obligations and training plan.

Article L6321-1

The employer ensures that employees are adapted to their jobs. It shall ensure that they remain capable of holding a job, particularly in the light of changes in jobs, technologies and organisations.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Right to professional qualifications.

Article L6314-1

Any worker engaged in working life or any person undertaking to do so has a right to vocational qualifications and must be able to follow, on his own initiative, training enabling him, whatever his st…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Control officers.

Article L6361-5

Without prejudice to the specific remit of the inspection bodies responsible for the establishments concerned, the inspections provided for in this Title are carried out by the Labour Inspectorate ins…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Industrial preparation and wholesale.

Article L5441-11

Natural persons guilty of the offences provided for in article L. 5441-8 are also liable to the following additional penalties: 1° Posting of the decision and its dissemination, under the conditions s…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions.

Article L6125-2

The use of the name "home hospital care establishment" in its title, articles of association, contracts, documents or advertising is reserved for holders of a healthcare activity authorisation referre…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Chapter I: Teaching and hospital staff.

Article L6151-2

As stated in article…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Section 2: Terms and conditions of implementation

Article L6211-23

The performance of medical biology examinations, the prescription and administration of certain vaccines, the biological activities of medically assisted procreation and pathological anatomy and cytol…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III : Regional cooperation

Article L7153-4

In the areas of competence of the territorial collectivity of French Guiana, the assembly of French Guiana may, by deliberation, request the authorities of the Republic to authorise its president to n…

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