Part Eight: Monitoring the application of employment legislation

When they are not part of the national police or gendarmerie services, the control officers referred to in Article L. 8271-1-2 may call upon sworn interpreters registered on one of the lists provided for in Article 157 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, for the control of regulations on foreign labour and the transnational posting of workers. The control officers mentioned in the first paragraph of this article who exercise…

The enforcement officers referred to in article L. 8271-1-2 shall, upon written request, forward to the officers of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, the regional directorates for cultural affairs, the institution referred to in article L. 5312-1, the body administering the unemployment insurance scheme and the local authorities all information and documents required to assess rights or fulfil obligations falling within the scope of their respective…

The enforcement officers referred to in article L. 8271-1-2 may, upon written request, obtain from the bodies responsible for a social protection scheme or from the funds providing paid leave services referred to in Book I of Part Three any information or documents that may be useful in carrying out their duties with regard to illegal employment. They shall forward to these bodies, which must make a written request, all…

The control officers referred to in Article L. 8271-1-2 of this Code may pass on to the officers of the body referred to in Article L. 767-1 of the Social Security Code any information and documents that may be useful in the performance by the latter of the duties entrusted to this body for the application of international and European social security regulations and agreements. The agents of the body…

The control officers referred to in 1° of Article L. 8271-1-2 may pass on to the officers of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations any information and documents that may be useful to the latter in carrying out the tasks provided for in Article L. 6323-9 entrusted to this body. Employees of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations may pass on to the inspection officers mentioned in article L. 8271-1-2…

The enforcement officers referred to in Article L. 8271-1-2, as well as the authorities responsible for coordinating their actions, may exchange any information and documents required to carry out their task of combating illegal employment with the officers vested with the same powers and the authorities responsible for coordinating their actions in foreign States. Where agreements are concluded with the authorities of these States, they shall set out the procedures…

The enforcement officers referred to in Article L. 8271-1-2 are empowered to interview, at any place and with their consent, any employer or his representative and any person paid, having been paid or presumed to be or to have been paid by the employer or by a self-employed person, in order to ascertain the nature of that person’s activities, his conditions of employment and the amount of the remuneration relating…

For the purposes of investigating and establishing offences constituting illegal employment, the inspection officers referred to in article L. 8271-1-2 may be presented with and obtain immediate copies of documents proving compliance with the provisions of this Book and Chapter II of Title VI of Book II of Part One.

The control officers referred to in Article L. 8271-1-2 may pass on to the officers authorised by the Director of the Conseil national des activités privées de sécurité, referred to in Article L. 634-1 of the Code de la sécurité intérieure, any information and documents enabling them to control persons carrying out private security activities in order to draw the consequences of a situation of illegal employment. The agents authorised…

The control officers referred to in article L. 8271-1-2 shall communicate their official reports relating to any of the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in 1° to 4° of article L. 8211-1 of this code to the collection bodies referred to in articles L. 213-1 and L. 752-1 of the Social Security Code andarticle L. 723-3 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, which shall proceed to collect the…