Subsection 1: Guarantees granted in the exercise of the mandate

The employer is required to allow any employee of his company who is a member of a town council the time necessary to attend and participate in: 1° To plenary sessions of this council; 2° To meetings of committees of which he is a member and set up by a deliberation of the municipal council; 3° To meetings of the deliberative assemblies and boards of the bodies to which he…

Subject to the compatibility of their workstation, local councillors are deemed to fall within the category of persons who have, where applicable, the most favourable access to teleworking in the exercise of their employment.

I.-Independently of the leave of absence from which they benefit under the conditions set out in article L. 2123-1, mayors, deputy mayors and municipal councillors are entitled to a credit of hours enabling them to have the time necessary for the administration of the municipality or the body to which they represent it and for the preparation of meetings of the bodies on which they sit. II.This flat-rate quarterly entitlement…

Losses of income suffered by municipal councillors who are employed or self-employed and who do not receive a function allowance may be compensated by the municipality or by the body to which they represent it, when these result: -from their attendance at the sittings and meetings mentioned in article L. 2123-1; -the exercise of their right to a credit of hours when they are in salaried employment or, when they…

The municipal councils referred to in article L. 2123-22 may vote to increase the duration of the time credits provided for in article L. 2123-2.

Time off used in application of articles L. 2123-1, L. 2123-2 and L. 2123-4 may not exceed half the legal working time for a calendar year.

Decrees in the Council of State shall, where necessary, lay down the terms and conditions for applying the provisions of articles L. 2123-2 to L. 2123-5. In particular, they specify the limits within which municipal councils may vote the increases provided for in article L. 2123-4 as well as the conditions under which these articles apply to the members of the deliberative assemblies and to the chairmen of the public…