Part One: Individual employment relations

When an industrial tribunal cannot be constituted, the first president of the court of appeal, at the request of the public prosecutor, appoints another industrial tribunal or, failing that, one or more judges within the jurisdiction of the court of appeal to hear the cases entered on the roll of the industrial tribunal or which should subsequently have been referred to this tribunal.

When article L. 1423-8 has been applied and the industrial tribunal with normal jurisdiction is once again able to function, the first president of the court of appeal, hearing the case under the same conditions, notes this state of affairs and sets the date from which cases will once again be brought before this tribunal. The first president also specifies the date from which cases that have been provisionally transferred…

When the president of the industrial tribunal observes a temporary difficulty in the operation of a section, he may, after receiving the assent of the vice-president and subject to the agreement of the parties concerned, temporarily assign the industrial tribunal members of one section to another section to hear disputes falling within the jurisdiction of the latter section. Such assignments are made for a period of six months, renewable twice…