Title II: Compensation for unemployed workers

The measures for implementing the provisions of this chapter, with the exception of the articles of this section, 5° of article L. 5422-9, articles L. 5422-10, L. 5422-14 to L. 5422-16 and article L. 5422-25, are the subject of agreements concluded between representative employers’ and employees’ organisations. These agreements are approved under the conditions defined by this section. In the absence of an agreement or its approval, the implementing measures…

Prior to the negotiation of the agreement referred to in article L. 5422-20 whose approval is coming to an end, or the negotiation of the agreement referred to in article L. 5422-25, and after consultation with the representative employee trade unions and employers’ professional organisations at national and cross-industry level, the Prime Minister sends these organisations a framework document. This document is sent to Parliament at the same time. This…

Pôle emploi and the body responsible for managing unemployment insurance mentioned in Article L. 5427-1 provide the State services with all the information required to draw up the framework document mentioned in Articles L. 5422-20-1 and L. 5422-25 and to monitor the negotiations.

Approval makes the provisions of the agreement binding on all employers and employees within the professional and territorial scope of the agreement. Approval is granted for the duration of the agreement’s validity. Agreements submitted to the Prime Minister for approval are subject to the publicity requirements for extension and enlargement decrees for collective labour agreements.

To be approved, the agreements mentioned in article L. 5422-20 must have been negotiated and concluded at national and cross-industry level between representative employers’ and employees’ organisations at national and cross-industry level. These agreements must comply with the legal and regulatory provisions in force. They must also be compatible with the financial trajectory and, where applicable, the objectives for changes in the rules of the unemployment insurance scheme defined in…

Where the agreement provided for in article L. 5422-20 has not been signed by all the representative employers’ and employees’ organisations, the Prime Minister may approve it in accordance with a procedure determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, in the absence of opposition expressed under the conditions laid down by the same decree.

I.-The resources mentioned in articles L. 5422-9, L. 5422-11 and L. 5424-20 finance, for the portion defined by the agreement mentioned in article L. 5422-20 and which may not be less than 10% of the amount of the aforementioned resources, a global contribution paid to the “Operation and investment” section and to the “Intervention” section of the Pôle emploi budget, the distribution of which is decided annually by the Board…