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In this case, thedismissal can have no other basis than unfitness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, the Conseil d&#8217;Etat noted that the employee <em>\u201chad not been the subject of a notice of unfitness from the occupational physician<\/em>\u201d (but only of a reorganization of his workingtime), so that the Court righfully ruled that \u2018\u201d<em>the refusal by the person concerned of the modification of his employment contract resulting from the APC constituted, a real and serious cause of dismissal<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CE, April 4, 2025, n\u00b0471490\u00a0 In this case, the Labour Inspectorate authorised the dismissal of a protected employee who had refused a change to his employment contract resulting from a Collective Performance Agreement (CPA). The employee took the matter to the administrative court to have the decision to authorise the dismissal overturned. 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