[Can you be laid off during a work stoppage]?

Can you be laid off during a work stoppage? Events linked in particular with the employee's health may interfere with the execution of work relations. In order to protect the employment agreement of the «sick» employee, labor law has therefore introduced a special mechanism, known as the suspension of the employment agreement. Thus, the absent employee has a legitimate reason for not performing his work. On its part, the employer can't, in principle, break contractual relations because of the employee's inability to provide his work. The lawmaker and the judges have imposed attenuations to this principle, allowing, under certain conditions, the dismissal of an employee during a period of work stoppage.