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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Redundancy pay.

Article L1234-9

An employee with an open-ended employment contract who is dismissed after 8 months' uninterrupted service with the same employer is entitled, except in the case of gross misconduct, to redundancy pay.…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Unfair breach of contract.

Article L1237-2

If an open-ended employment contract is terminated at the employee's initiative, the employer is entitled to damages if the termination is unfair.In the event of a dispute, the court will rule in acco…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Unfair breach of contract.

Article L1237-3

Where an employee who has wrongfully terminated a contract of employment enters into a new contract of employment, the new employer is jointly and severally liable for any damage caused to the previou…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Successive redundancies.

Article L1233-26

Where a company or establishment normally employing at least fifty employees has made redundancies over a period of three consecutive months involving a total of more than ten employees, but no more t…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Successive redundancies.

Article L1233-27

When a company or establishment usually employing at least fifty employees has made redundancies for economic reasons in the course of a calendar year involving more than eighteen employees in total,…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Changes to the employment contract giving rise to ten or more refusals.

Article L1233-25

Where at least ten employees have refused to accept a change to an essential element of their employment contract, proposed by their employer for one of the economic reasons set out in Article L. 1233…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Retirement.

Article L1237-5

Retirement means the possibility given to the employer to terminate the employment contract of an employee who has reached the age mentioned in 1° of article L. 351-8 of the Social Security Code , sub…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Resources and means

Article L1233-5

I.-The staff of the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires comprises: 1° State civil servants; 2° Non-tenured public-sector employees; > 3° Employees governed by the French Labour Code. II.-A…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Resources and means

Article L1233-3

The National Agency for Territorial Cohesion and the State shall enter into multi-year agreements with: 1° The National Agency for Urban Renewal; 2° The Agence nationale de l'habitat (National Housing…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Retirement.

Article L1237-6

An employer who decides to retire must give notice for a period determined in accordance with article L. 1234-1.

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