Article L1131-1 of the French Labour Code
The provisions of this Title are applicable to private law employers and their employees. They shall also apply to the staff of public bodies employed under the conditions of private law.
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The provisions of this Title are applicable to private law employers and their employees. They shall also apply to the staff of public bodies employed under the conditions of private law.
In any company with at least three hundred employees and in any company specialising in recruitment, the employees responsible for recruitment receive training in non-discrimination in recruitment at least once every five years.
No person may be excluded from a recruitment or appointment procedure or from access to an internship or period of training in a company, and no employee may be penalised, dismissed or subjected to a direct or indirect discriminatory measure, as defined in Article 1 of Law No. 2008-496 of 27 May 2008 containing various provisions for adapting to Community law in the field of anti-discrimination, in particular with regard…
No employee may be penalised, dismissed or subjected to any of the discriminatory measures mentioned in Article L. 1132-1 because of the normal exercise of the right to strike.
No employee may be penalised, dismissed or subjected to a discriminatory measure for having witnessed or reported the conduct defined in Articles L. 1132-1 and L. 1132-2.
No employee may be penalised, dismissed or subjected to any of the discriminatory measures mentioned in Article L. 1132-1 on account of performing the duties of a juror or citizen assessor.
No employee may be penalised, dismissed or subjected to any of the discriminatory measures mentioned in Article L. 1132-1 for refusing, on the grounds of his or her sexual orientation, a geographical transfer to a country where homosexuality is a criminal offence.
No person who has testified, in good faith, to facts constituting an offence or crime of which he or she has become aware in the performance of his or her duties, or who has reported such facts, may be subject to the measures mentioned in Article L. 1121-2. The persons mentioned in the first paragraph of this article benefit from the protection provided for in I and III of Article…
Any provision or act taken in respect of an employee in disregard of the provisions of this chapter or of II of Article 10-1 of Law 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, combating corruption and modernising economic life is null and void.
Article L. 1132-1 does not preclude differences in treatment where they meet an essential and determining occupational requirement, provided that the objective is legitimate and the requirement proportionate.
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