Part Six: Health facilities and services

Hospital practitioners are guaranteed the right to organise. They may not suffer any prejudice or benefit from any advantages because of their trade union commitments. Special leave of absence is granted, by the director of the establishment, under conditions set by order of the Minister of Health, to duly authorised union representatives of hospital practitioners, on the occasion of union, federal and confederal congresses, as well as meetings of the…

The trade union organisations representing the Higher Council of Medical, Odontological and Pharmaceutical Staff of Public Health Establishments mentioned in article R. 6156-1 benefit, through their members, from a trade union e-mail address within the establishment in which they carry out their duties. They may send their communiqués to practitioners working in the establishment by decision of the director of the establishment, after informing the president of the establishment’s medical…

Within the limits of the appropriations allocated for this purpose in the budget of the Minister responsible for health, an operating subsidy for IT and telephony resources is allocated for each seat of full representative held on the Higher Council of Medical, Odontological and Pharmaceutical Staff of Public Health Establishments. The amount of this subsidy is set by a joint order of the ministers responsible for the civil service, the…

A global annual credit for trade union time is allocated to all the trade union organisations represented on the Higher Council of Medical, Odontological and Pharmaceutical Staff. Its volume in full-time equivalent is set at eighteen. It is distributed between the trade unions represented on the Board of Governors in proportion to the number of votes obtained by each of them in the elections to this Board, with the remainder…

The representative trade union organisations designate the beneficiaries of the overall trade union time credit from among the staff employed by the public bodies mentioned in article 2 of the law of 9 January 1986. The use of the overall trade union time credit by the beneficiaries is granted by the director of the establishment subject to service requirements. Reasons must be given for any refusal. At the beginning of…