Section 3: Access to documents.

The labour inspectors referred to in Article L. 8112-1 may, during their inspections, ask to see all the books, registers and documents made compulsory by this Code or by any legal provision relating to labour regulations.

The Labour Inspectorate control officers mentioned in Article L. 8112-1 may request any document or piece of information, regardless of the medium, that is useful for establishing facts likely to verify compliance with the application of: 1° The provisions of articles L. 1132-1 to L. 1132-4 of the Labour Code and those of article 225-2 of the Criminal Code, relating to discrimination ; 2° The provisions of articles L. 1142-1…

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation may, during their visits, obtain any accounting or professional document or any other piece of information likely to facilitate the performance of their duties. They may also take an immediate copy, by any means and on any medium. For the communication of computerised data, they have…

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation shall have a right of communication enabling them to obtain, without prejudice to professional secrecy, communication of any document, information or data useful for the performance of their duties. Without prejudice to other legislative provisions applicable to the exchange of information, the right of communication defined…

Where equivalent control guarantees are maintained, companies may, under the conditions and within the limits determined by decree, derogate from the retention of pay slips and the keeping of certain registers to take account of the use of other means, in particular computerised means.