Article 77
The termination of a labour contract at will on the part of the employer alone, without prior notice or without compliance with the prior notice periods, entails the obligation of the employer to compensate the worker the amount equal to the wages and all kinds of benefits that the worker would have received during the official notice period.
Article 78
The prior notice is the obligation to be observed in enterprises or establishments set forth in Article 1 of this law, both by the worker and by the employer when one of them decides unilaterally to terminate the labour contract. However, the worker laid off for reasons other than serious misconduct can leave the enterprise before the end of the notice period if he finds a new job in the meantime. In such case, the worker will not be required to compensate the employer.
Article 79
During the notice period, the worker of the enterprise is entitled to two days leave per week with full payment to look for a new job.
These leave days are paid to the worker at the normal rate of remuneration, regardless of how it is calculated. This payment shall include other perquisites.
Article 80
For task-work or piecework, the worker usually cannot abandon the task that he has been assigned before it has been finished.
However, for a long-term employment that cannot be completed in less than one month, one of the contracting parties who wishes to release himself from the obligations of the contract for serious reasons, he can do so as long as he notifies the other party eight days in advance.
Article 81
Throughout the notice period, the employer and the worker shall be bound to carry out the obligations incumbent on them.
Article 82
The contracting parties are released from the obligation of giving prior notice under the following cases:
1. For a probation or an internship specified in the contract.
2. For a serious offense on the part of one of the parties.
3. For acts of God that one of the parties is unable to meet his obligations.