Section 4: Professional representation

In the undertakings referred to in Articles L. 7111-3 and L. 7111-5, where a specific electoral college is created for professional journalists and persons treated as such, the trade union organisation that satisfies the criteria of Article L. 2121-1 and that received at least 10% of the votes cast in the first round of the most recent elections of full members of the social and economic committee in this college…

In the branches that cover the activities of press companies, daily or periodical publications and press agencies, as well as the activities of companies communicating to the public by electronic means or audiovisual communication, the trade union organisations that meet the conditions of article L. 2122-5 in the journalists’ electoral colleges are representative with regard to the staff mentioned in article L. 7111-1.

In companies in which a specific electoral college is created for professional journalists and persons treated as such, where the agreement or convention only concerns journalists or persons treated as such, its validity is subject to its signature by, on the one hand, the employer or his representative and, on the other hand, one or more representative employee trade union organisations having received more than 50% of the votes cast…

Where the branch agreement or the agreement only concerns professional journalists and persons treated as such, its validity is subject to its being signed by one or more representative employee trade union organisations which, in the elections taken into account for the measurement of the audience provided for in 3° of Article L. 2122-5, at least 30% of the votes cast in the college of journalists in favour of organisations…

The social and economic committee of any press company, daily or periodical publication, press agency or online public or audiovisual communication company is informed each year of its compliance with article 2 bis of the law of 29 July 1881 on freedom of the press.