If an agreement is subsequently concluded in a territorial or professional sector which has been the subject of an extension order, the latter becomes null and void with regard to the employers bound by this agreement. The extension order repeals the extension order in the field of application for which the extension is pronounced.
The provisions of this sub-section do not apply to : 1° Agreements relating to unemployment insurance as provided for in article L. 5422-20; 2° Agreements concluded within the framework of a convention or an agreement on employee profit-sharing and which aim to determine the nature and management methods of the rights granted to employees who benefit from them.
I.-The Minister responsible for Labour may, in view of the general interest in restructuring professional branches, initiate a procedure to merge the scope of application of the collective agreements of a branch with that of a related branch with similar social and economic conditions: 1° When the branch has fewer than 5,000 employees; 2° Where the activity of the branch is characterised by a low number of agreements or endorsements…
In the event of a merger of the scope of application of several collective agreements in application of I of article L. 2261-32 or in the event of the conclusion of a collective agreement combining the scope of several existing agreements, the contractual stipulations applicable prior to the merger or combination, where they govern equivalent situations, are replaced by common stipulations, within a period of five years from the effective…
Until such time as the representativeness of the professional employers’ organisations is measured following the merger of areas covered by collective bargaining agreements pronounced in application of I of article L. 2261-32 or the conclusion of a collective agreement combining the scope of several pre-existing agreements, the professional employers’ organisations that are representative in the scope of at least one branch pre-existing the merger or combination are entitled to negotiate….
Without prejudice to the effects of extension or enlargement, the application of agreements and arrangements is compulsory for all signatories or members of signatory organisations or groupings.
Membership of a signatory organisation or grouping has the same consequences as membership of the collective labour agreement itself, provided that the conditions for membership set out in Article L. 2261-3 are met.
An employer who resigns from the signatory organisation or grouping after the agreement has been signed remains bound by it.
Employees’ organisations and employers’ organisations or groupings, or individual employers, bound by an agreement or arrangement are required not to do anything likely to jeopardise its faithful performance. They are only liable for such performance to the extent determined by the agreement.
The conditions for informing employees and staff representatives about the collective bargaining law applicable in the company or establishment are defined by branch agreement or professional agreement. In the absence of an agreement, the procedures for providing information on the applicable collective bargaining texts are defined by regulation.
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