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Article L1224-2 of the French Labour Code

The new employer is bound, with regard to the employees whose employment contracts remain in force, by the obligations incumbent on the former employer on the date of the change, except in the following cases:

1° Safeguard, receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings ;

2° Substitution of employers without any agreement between them.

The first employer reimburses the sums paid by the new employer, due on the date of the change, unless the burden resulting from these obligations has been taken into account in the agreement between them.

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Article L1224-2

Le nouvel employeur est tenu, à l’égard des salariés dont les contrats de travail subsistent, aux obligations qui incombaient à l’ancien employeur à la date de la modification, sauf dans les cas suivants :

1° Procédure de sauvegarde, de redressement ou de liquidation judiciaire ;

2° Substitution d’employeurs intervenue sans qu’il y ait eu de convention entre ceux-ci.

Le premier employeur rembourse les sommes acquittées par le nouvel employeur, dues à la date de la modification, sauf s’il a été tenu compte de la charge résultant de ces obligations dans la convention intervenue entre eux.

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