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Article L1226-1-1 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

When justified by the protection of public health, in the event of a serious and exceptional health risk, as provided for inarticle L. 16-10-1 of the Social Security Code, in particular an epidemic, requiring the urgent adoption of appropriate conditions for the payment of the supplementary allowance provided for in article L. 1226-1 of this Code, derogating from ordinary law, these may be provided for by decree, for a limited…

Article L1226-1-2 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

The employment contract of an employee suffering from a non-occupational illness or accident remains suspended during the periods in which he/she is following the actions mentioned inarticle L. 323-3-1 of the Social Security Code under the conditions set out in the same article.

Article L1226-1-3 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

When the duration of the employee’s absence from work justified by incapacity resulting from illness or accident, as certified by a medical certificate and a second medical examination if necessary, is longer than a period set by decree, the suspension of the employment contract does not prevent the organisation of a liaison meeting between the employee and the employer, involving the occupational health and prevention service. The purpose of this…

Article L1226-1-4 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

Workers declared unfit in application of article L. 4624-4 or for whom the occupational physician has identified a risk of unfitness as part of the pre-resumption examination mentioned in article L. 4624-2-4 may benefit from the company-based vocational rehabilitation agreement mentioned in article L. 5213-3-1.

Article L1226-2 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

When an employee who is the victim of a non-occupational illness or accident is declared unfit by the occupational physician, in application of article L. 4624-4, to return to the job he/she previously held, the employer shall offer him/her another job appropriate to his/her abilities, within the undertaking or undertakings of the group to which it belongs, where applicable, situated on national territory and whose organisation, activities or place of…

Article L1226-2-1 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

Where it is impossible for the employer to offer the employee another job, he shall inform him in writing of the reasons preventing him from being redeployed. The employer may only terminate the employment contract if he can justify either his inability to offer a job under the conditions provided for in article L. 1226-2, or the employee’s refusal of the job offered under these conditions, or the express mention…

Article L1226-3 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

The employment contract of an employee who has been declared unfit for work may be suspended to enable him/her to follow a vocational redeployment course.

Article L1226-4 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

If, at the end of a period of one month from the date of the medical examination to resume work, the employee declared unfit has not been reclassified within the company or if he has not been dismissed, the employer will pay him, from the expiry of this period, the salary corresponding to the job he held before the suspension of his employment contract. These provisions also apply in the…

Article L1226-4-1 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

In the event of dismissal in the circumstances referred to in Article L. 1226-2-1, the compensation due to the employee in respect of the termination of employment shall be paid either directly by the employer, or by means of the cover it has subscribed to a mutual fund. The management of this fund is entrusted to the association provided for in article L. 3253-14.

Article L1226-4-2 of the French Labour Code

November 8, 2023

The provisions of Article L. 1226-4 also apply to employees on fixed-term employment contracts.

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Article L1226-1-1 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-1-2 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-1-3 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-1-4 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-2 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-2-1 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-3 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-4 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-4-1 of the French Labour Code

Article L1226-4-2 of the French Labour Code

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