Section 4: Salaried employees

The salaried court-appointed administrator may only carry out his duties within a single law firm. The owner of the law firm is civilly liable for the professional activity carried out on his behalf by the salaried court-appointed administrator. The status of salaried court-appointed administrator is assimilated to that of court-appointed administrator for the award of the title of honorary court-appointed administrator.

A salaried judicial administrator invested with a mandate as a member of the national registration and disciplinary commission may not participate in deliberations or votes on disciplinary matters concerning the titular judicial administrator of the firm or the associate judicial administrators exercising their functions within the titular firm of the firm in which he is employed. The latter may not, where they are invested with such a mandate, take part…

The employment contract shall be drawn up in writing, subject to the suspensive condition of the employee’s registration on the list mentioned in Article L. 811-2 as a court-appointed administrator and his swearing in. The condition is deemed to have been fulfilled on the date of swearing in. It may not contain any clause likely to limit the employee’s freedom of establishment at a later date or to affect his…

When the number of court-appointed administrators practising within the firm falls below half the number of salaried court-appointed administrators, the owner of the firm has a period of one year to comply with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article L. 811-7-1.