Sep 12, 2002 07:58
22 yrs ago
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French term

signalement

French to English Law/Patents Labour Law
This is in the context of a report by a Labour Inspector about an employer's alleged failure to consult the Works Committee about planned redundancies. The Inspector wrote both a "procès-verbal" and a "signalement" which was then sent to the public prosecutor. So far I have used "report" for "procès-verbal" but am unsure how to translate "signalement". See below:

"II. SUR LA NULLITE DU SIGNALEMENT
1. Madame STEINBERG, Inspectrice du Travail à PARIS, suivant signalement en date du 13 Avril 2001, complété le 9 Octobre 2001, a prétendu que, Messieurs XXX et YYY, notamment se seraient rendus coupables du délit d’entrave au fonctionnement régulier du Comité Central d’Entreprise de ZZZZZ.

2. L’Inspectrice du Travail n’a ni adressé, ni remis, par lettre recommandée avec accusé de réception, ou par courrier simple, un exemplaire de son signalement et de son complément à Messieurs XXXX et YYY ; de surcroît, l’Inspectrice du Travail a transmis ces signalement et complément directement au Procureur de la République de PARIS, sans suivre la voie hiérarchique.".

Could it be something like "report of an offence"?

TIA

Proposed translations

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Selected

notification

signaler means to point out, to draw attention to, so here I think the noun signalement is being used in a similar way
Peer comment(s):

agree Gillian Hargreaves (X) : Sounds like a neat way round the problem
31 mins
agree marfus
39 mins
agree Geoff
1 hr
agree NancyLynn
3 hrs
agree RHELLER : fits well here
4 hrs
agree caroail (X) : weird though because in France signalement is like a "personal description" d'un homme recherché par example ... curieux
12 hrs
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reporting

Ref. TERMIUM :

Domaine(s)
  – Sociology of the Family
  – Social Problems
Domaine(s)
  – Sociologie de la famille
  – Problèmes sociaux
 
reporting Source
CORRECT, NOM

signalement Source
CORRECT, MASC

CONT – Protecting
those at risk. ... The
following strategies for
protection were
discussed: ... housing
and shelters, removal
of the perpetrator, law
enforcement,
advocacy, and
reporting. Source

CONT – Child Sexual
Abuse - Guidelines for
Community Workers
has been developed to
help strengthen the
community's reponse
to child sexual abuse.
The guidelines discuss
prevention,
identification and
reporting, investigation
and assessment ....
Source

OBS – Substantif qui
se base sur le verbe
«signaler» dans le
sens de «Faire
remarquer ou connaître
en attirant l'attention»
(PEROB, 1993, p
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Reporting of an offence

This one is quite tricky because 'signalement' and 'procès-verbal' can be translated witht he same word. But this is the best i could find, taken from:
LE GRAND DICTIONNAIRE TERMINOLOGIQUE DE LA LANGUE FRANCAISE 2002

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Domaine(s) :
administration publique
droit
police

1 / 1

Fr = signalement (n. m.)

An = reporting of an offense

Déf. :
Action de signaler aux autorités compétentes des faits ou des événements susceptibles de donner lieu à des poursuites judiciaires.

Note(s) :
Le signalement peut porter sur une agression sexuelle, sur des mauvais traitements infligés aux enfants, aux personnes âgées, etc.

[Office de la langue française, 2001]

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report (of an offence to relevant authorities)

As "signalement" means precisely the reporting of an offence to the appropriate authorities, I don't think there is any way you can escape the use of the word "report" if you are going to be accurate. However, you can perhaps turn your sentence round a bit, perhaps more easily in the first instance than the second.

1.
According to the report submitted by ....

In reporting the offence on [date], Mrs ...


2.

... failed to forward a copy of her report and its appendix to ...

... forwarded a copy of her report and appendix thereto directly to ...





Peer comment(s):

agree MikeGarcia
4 hrs
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