Subsection 1: Procedure for consulting employee representatives specific to collective redundancies.

An employer who intends to make collective redundancies for economic reasons of less than ten employees within the same thirty-day period shall convene and consult the Social and Economic Committee in undertakings with at least eleven employees, in accordance with the conditions set out in this sub-section. The Social and Economic Committee delivers its opinion within a period which may not exceed one month from the date of the first…

In companies with a central company social and economic committee, the employer convenes a meeting of the central social and economic committee and the social and economic committee(s) of the establishments concerned whenever the measures envisaged exceed the powers of the head(s) of the establishment(s) concerned or concern several establishments simultaneously.

Together with the invitation to the meeting provided for in article L. 1233-8, the employer shall send the employee representatives all relevant information on the proposed mass redundancies. It shall indicate 1° The economic, financial or technical reasons for the proposed redundancies ; 2° The number of redundancies envisaged; 3° The professional categories concerned and the proposed criteria for the order of redundancies; 4° The number of employees, permanent or…