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Title II: Purpose and content of collective labour agreements

Article L2221-1 of the French Labour Code

This Book relates to the determination of collective relations between employers and employees. It defines the rules governing the exercise of employees’ right to collective bargaining on all their terms and conditions of employment, vocational training and working conditions, as well as their social guarantees.

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Article L2221-2 of the French Labour Code

The collective agreement is intended to deal with all the matters mentioned in article L. 2221-1, for all the professional categories concerned. The collective agreement deals with one or more specific subjects within this whole.

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Article L2222-1 of the French Labour Code

Collective labour agreements, hereinafter referred to as “agreements” in this book, determine their territorial and professional scope of application. The professional scope is defined in terms of economic activities. With regard to the agricultural professions mentioned in 1° to 3°, 6° and 7° of Article L. 722-20 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, the scope of application of the agreements and conventions may, in addition, take account of the…

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Article L2222-3 of the French Labour Code

Under the conditions laid down in Title IV of Book II of Part Two of this Code, the collective labour agreement or arrangement defines : 1° The timetable for negotiations ; 2° The procedures for taking into account, in the branch or company, requests relating to negotiation topics from one or more representative employee trade union organisations.

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Article L2222-3-1 of the French Labour Code

A collective agreement may define the method by which negotiations can be conducted in conditions of loyalty and mutual trust between the parties. This agreement or arrangement specifies the nature of the information shared between the negotiators, particularly at company level, based on the database defined in article L. 2323-8. This convention or agreement defines the main stages in the negotiations and may provide for additional or specific resources, in…

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Article L2222-3-2 of the French Labour Code

An agreement concluded at branch level defines the method applicable to negotiation at company level. This agreement is binding on companies which have not concluded an agreement or convention in application of article L. 2222-3-1. If an agreement mentioned in the same article L. 2222-3-1 is concluded, its stipulations replace the stipulations of this branch agreement. Unless the agreement provided for in the first paragraph of this article stipulates otherwise,…

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Article L2222-4 of the French Labour Code

The agreement is concluded for a fixed or indefinite period. In the absence of any stipulation in the agreement as to its duration, the duration is set at five years. When the agreement expires, it ceases to have effect.

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