Part Two: Collective labour relations

Voters must be at least eighteen years of age and have been working in the company for at least one year, with the exception of the employer’s spouse, partner in a civil solidarity pact, cohabitee, ascendants, descendants, brothers, sisters and relatives to the same degree, as well as employees who have a specific written delegation of authority enabling them to be assimilated to the head of the company or who…

In temporary employment undertakings, the seniority conditions are, for temporary employees, three months to be eligible to vote and six months to be eligible to stand for election. These conditions are assessed by adding together the periods during which these employees have been linked to these undertakings by assignment contracts during the twelve months or the eighteen months preceding the election, depending on whether it is a question of electorate…

In wage portage companies, the seniority conditions are, for wage portage employees, three months to be eligible to vote and six months to be eligible to stand for election. These conditions are assessed by totalling the periods during which these employees have carried out wage portage services under employment contracts concluded with these companies during the twelve months or eighteen months preceding the election, depending on whether it is a…

In temporary employment undertakings, all temporary employees satisfying the conditions defined in article L. 2314-20 and bound to the temporary employment undertaking by an assignment contract at the time the lists are drawn up may vote or stand for election. However, these conditions of electorate and eligibility no longer apply to: 1° Employees who have informed the temporary employment agency that they no longer wish to benefit from a new…

For employees on secondment who meet the conditions mentioned in 2° of article L. 1111-2, the condition of presence in the user undertaking is twelve continuous months in order to be eligible to vote there. Employees on secondment are not eligible to vote in the user undertaking. Employees on secondment who meet the conditions mentioned in the first paragraph choose whether to exercise their right to vote in the employing…

In staff portage companies, all staff portage employees who satisfy the seniority conditions defined by article L. 2314-21 and who, at the time the lists are drawn up, are carrying out a portage service under an employment contract concluded with the company, are eligible to vote or stand for election.

The Labour Inspector may, after consulting the representative trade union organisations in the undertaking, authorise derogations from the conditions of seniority for eligibility to vote, in particular where their application would have the effect of reducing to less than two thirds of the workforce the number of employees fulfilling these conditions. It may also, after consulting the representative trade union organisations in the company, authorise derogations to the conditions of…