Title VII: Control of illegal employment

The decision by the administrative authority to provisionally close the establishment, taken in application of article L. 8272-2, shall not result in the termination or suspension of the employment contract or in any financial loss to the employees of the establishment.

When the administrative authority is aware of an official report of an infringement provided for in 1° to 4° of article L. 8211-1, it may, if the proportion of employees concerned so warrants, having regard to the repetition or seriousness of the acts observed, order, by reasoned decision taken against the person who committed the infringement, the exclusion from the administrative contracts mentioned in articles L. 551-1 and L. 551-5…

Failure to comply with the administrative decisions referred to in the third paragraph of article L. 8272-1 and in articles L. 8272-2 or L. 8272-4 is punishable by two months’ imprisonment and a fine of €3,750.