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Part Three: Working hours, pay, profit-sharing and employee savings schemes

Article R3255-1 of the French Labour Code

Requiring an employee to pay money or withholding money under the name of expenses or any other name for any purpose whatsoever, on the occasion of his recruitment, the normal performance of his work or the termination of his employment contract in the sectors mentioned in article L. 3251-4, is punishable by a fourth-class fine. These penalties are independent of any restitution or damages to which the offence may give…

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Article R3261-2 of the French Labour Code

The employer will pay for tickets purchased by employees in the following categories: 1° Multimodal season tickets with an unlimited number of journeys, as well as annual, monthly, weekly or tacit renewal season tickets with an unlimited number of journeys issued by the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer (SNCF), as well as by public transport companies, public transport authorities and the other persons mentioned in article 7 II of…

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Article R3261-3 of the French Labour Code

The employer will cover the cost on the basis of second class fares. The beneficiary may request that the cost of one or more tickets enabling him/her to travel from his/her usual place of residence to his/her place of work in the shortest possible time be covered. If the ticket used is for a journey longer than that required to cover the journey from the usual place of residence to…

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Article R3261-4 of the French Labour Code

The employer shall reimburse tickets purchased by employees as soon as possible and, at the latest, at the end of the month following the month for which they were validated. Vouchers valid for one year are reimbursed on a monthly basis during the period of use.

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Article R3261-5 of the French Labour Code

The reimbursement of transport costs by the employer is subject to the employee handing in or, failing that, presenting the tickets. To be eligible for reimbursement, the tickets must enable the holder to be identified and comply with the rules of validity defined by the public establishment, public authority, company or person mentioned in article R. 3261-2, or, where applicable, by the person responsible for managing the public bicycle hire…

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Article R3261-8 of the French Labour Code

The employer may refuse to cover the costs if the employee already receives expense allowances for travel between his usual place of residence and his place(s) of work in an amount equal to or greater than the amount covered by article R. 3261-1.

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Article R3261-9 of the French Labour Code

A part-time employee, employed for a number of hours equal to or greater than half the legal weekly working time or the number of hours agreed in the collective bargaining agreement, if the latter is less, will benefit from reimbursement equivalent to that of a full-time employee. A part-time employee, employed for a number of hours less than half the number of full-time working hours defined in accordance with the…

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