La. Civ. Code art. 2749
This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 2749, part of Louisiana’s Civil Code — louisiana's civil law tradition codifies persons, property, obligations, and family relations here rather than in a separate statutory code.
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Liability for dismissal of laborer without cause.
Official statutory text
If, without any serious ground of complaint, a man should send away a laborer whose services he has hired for a certain time,*before that time has expired, he shall be bound to pay to such laborer the whole of the salaries which he would have been entitled to receive, had the full term of his services arrived.
*English translation of French text incomplete; should include "as said in the foregoing article."
*English translation of French text incomplete; should include "as said in the foregoing article."
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