Section 4: Dismissal of ten or more employees within a thirty-day period

The administrative authority shall notify the employer of the validation decision within fifteen days of receipt of the collective agreement referred to in article L. 1233-24-1 and the homologation decision within twenty-one days of receipt of the complete document drawn up by the employer referred to in article L. 1233-24-4. It shall notify, within the same timeframe, the Social and Economic Committee and, if it relates to a collective agreement,…

Any request that the employer be ordered to provide information relating to the procedure in progress or to comply with a procedural rule provided for by legislation, collective agreements or a collective agreement, before the application for validation or homologation is forwarded, shall be addressed to the administrative authority. The administrative authority will make its decision within five days.

The administration may, at any time during the procedure, make any observation or proposal to the employer concerning the conduct of the procedure or the social measures provided for in article L. 1233-32. It shall simultaneously send a copy of its observations to the social and economic committee and, where negotiation of the agreement referred to in article L. 1233-24-1 is underway, where applicable to the representative trade union organisations…

In the event of a decision to refuse validation or homologation, the employer, if he wishes to resume his project, submits a new application after making the necessary changes and consulting the social and economic committee.

The administrative authority competent to take the homologation or validation decision mentioned in article L. 1233-57-1 is that of the place where the company or establishment concerned by the collective redundancy project is established. If the collective redundancy project concerns establishments falling under the jurisdiction of different authorities, the competent administrative authority is designated under the conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.