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Article L3221-7 of the French Labour Code

Any provision contained in a contract of employment, a collective labour agreement, a wage agreement, a regulation or a wage scale resulting from a decision by an employer or an employers’ association and which, contrary to Articles L. 3221-2 to L. 3221-6, provides for lower pay for one or more employees of one sex than for employees of the other sex for the same work or work of equal value, is automatically null and void.

The higher remuneration received by the latter employees is automatically substituted for that received by the invalid provision.

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Article L3221-7

Est nulle de plein droit toute disposition figurant notamment dans un contrat de travail, une convention ou accord collectif de travail, un accord de salaires, un règlement ou barème de salaires résultant d’une décision d’un employeur ou d’un groupement d’employeurs et qui, contrairement aux articles L. 3221-2 à L. 3221-6, comporte, pour un ou des salariés de l’un des deux sexes, une rémunération inférieure à celle de salariés de l’autre sexe pour un même travail ou un travail de valeur égale.

La rémunération plus élevée dont bénéficient ces derniers salariés est substituée de plein droit à celle que comportait la disposition entachée de nullité.

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