Chapter VI: Social dialogue

Voting takes place under the conditions set out in Decree no. 2017-1811 of 28 December 2017 on the conditions and procedures for implementing electronic voting via the internet for the election of staff representatives to representative bodies for medical, odontological and pharmaceutical staff in public health establishments and certain social and medico-social establishments. A polling station is set up for the election of representatives to each statutory college. This committee…

For each statutory college, the polling station records the total number of voters and determines the total number of votes validly cast and the number of votes obtained by each list. It also determines the electoral quotient by dividing the number of valid votes cast by the number of full representatives to be elected within each college. Each trade union organisation is allocated as many full representative seats as the…

In the event that, for the allocation of a seat, the lists obtain the same average number of votes, the seat is allocated to the list with the highest number of votes. If the lists in question have received the same number of votes, the seat is awarded to the list with the highest number of candidates. If several of these lists have obtained the same number of votes and…

The full representatives are appointed in the order of presentation of the list. Each list is then allocated a number of alternates designated in the order of presentation of the list.

If no candidates are put forward by the trade unions, lots are drawn from among the eligible staff in the statutory college concerned.

The polling station draws up the minutes of the electoral operations, on which are recorded, for each ballot, the number of electors, the number of voters, the number of valid votes cast, the number of invalid votes, the number of votes obtained by each list present as well as the complaints of the list delegates and the reasoned decisions, taken by the president of the polling station, on the incidents…

Without prejudice to the provisions of the last paragraph of I of article 9 bis of the aforementioned Act of 13 July 1983, any disputes regarding the validity of the electoral process shall be referred to the Minister for Health within five days of the announcement of the results and then, where appropriate, to the administrative courts.

The list of full and alternate members of the Board of Governors is drawn up by the Minister for Health within one month of the announcement of the election results.

For the purposes of measuring the representativeness of trade union organisations, where a joint list has been drawn up by trade union organisations, the votes cast are apportioned between them on the basis indicated by them and made public when the list was submitted. This breakdown is attached to the list of candidates. In the absence of such an indication, the distribution of votes is made in equal shares between…

When the trade union organisation that presented a list is unable to fill the full or alternate seats to which it is entitled, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article R. 6156-6, it appoints its representative, for the remainder of the term of office, from among the employees falling within the scope of the statutory college who are eligible at the time of the appointment.