Section 3: Special provisions for legal entities.

When an accident at work occurs in a company where serious or repeated breaches of health and safety rules at work have been identified, the court hearing the case, which acquits the natural person(s) prosecuted on the basis of articles 221-6, 221-19 and 221-20 of the Criminal Code, requires the company to take all measures to restore normal health and safety conditions at work. To this end, the court orders…

Where article L. 4741-11 has been applied, no new offence may be recorded for the same reason during the period which may have been granted. In the event of a repeat offence recorded in the official report, following a conviction under the aforementioned article, the court may order the total or partial, permanent or temporary closure of the establishment in which the safety or health work required by law has…

Subject to the provisions of the second paragraph, fines imposed in application of article L. 4741-12 may not result in the termination or suspension of the employment contract or in any financial loss to the employees concerned. When the total and definitive closure results in the dismissal of staff, it shall give rise, in addition to compensation in lieu of notice and compensation for dismissal, to the damages provided for…

In the event of a conviction pursuant to article L. 4741-12, the court may order, as an additional penalty, that the judgment be posted at the doors of the convicted person’s establishments, at the latter’s expense, under the conditions provided for inarticle 131-35 of the French Penal Code, and that it be published, in full or in extracts, in the newspapers it designates. These costs may not exceed the maximum…