Part One: Individual employment relations

When an employee who has suffered an accident at work or has contracted an occupational disease is declared unfit by the occupational physician, in application of article L. 4624-4, to return to the job he/she previously held, the employer shall offer him/her another job appropriate to his/her abilities, within the company or the companies in the group to which it belongs, where applicable, located on national territory and whose organisation,…

If, at the end of a period of one month from the date of the medical examination to resume work, the employee declared unfit has not been reclassified within the company or if he has not been dismissed, the employer will pay him, from the expiry of this period, the salary corresponding to the job he held before the suspension of his employment contract. These provisions also apply in the…

If the employer is unable to offer the employee another job, it shall inform him/her in writing of the reasons for the refusal to redeploy. The employer may only terminate the employment contract if he can justify either his inability to offer a job under the conditions provided for in article L. 1226-10, or the employee’s refusal of the job offered under these conditions, or the express mention in the…