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Article L2232-12 of the French Labour Code

The validity of a company or establishment agreement 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 in favour of representative organisations in the first round of the most recent elections of permanent members to the social and economic committee, whatever the…

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Article L2232-13 of the French Labour Code

The fact that a category-based trade union organisation affiliated to a category-based trade union confederation is recognised as representative of the employees it is statutorily authorised to represent gives it the right to negotiate any provision applicable to that category of employees. Where the agreement or arrangement only concerns a specific professional category covered by an electoral college, its validity is subject to its signature by, on the one hand,…

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Article L2232-14 of the French Labour Code

In the event of a lack of participation in the first round of professional elections, where the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 2143-23 are applied, the validity of the company or establishment agreement negotiated and concluded with the trade union section representative is subject to its approval by the employees by a majority of the votes cast under conditions determined by decree and in compliance with the…

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Article L2232-16 of the French Labour Code

The company agreement or agreements are negotiated between the employer and the representative employee trade unions in the company. An agreement or agreements may be concluded at the level of an establishment or a group of establishments under the same conditions. The present article is applicable to the revision and denunciation of the agreement or arrangement, regardless of how it was negotiated and ratified.

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Article L2232-17 of the French Labour Code

The delegation from each of the representative organisations involved in negotiations in the company comprises the organisation’s trade union delegate in the company or, where there is more than one delegate, at least two trade union delegates. Each organisation may supplement its delegation with employees from the company, the number of which is set by agreement between the employer and all the organisations mentioned in the first paragraph. In the…

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Article L2232-19 of the French Labour Code

When a company employs workers belonging to one or more outside companies, either on its own premises or on a site which it manages as a general company, the union representatives of the representative organisations in these companies shall, at their request, be heard during negotiations.

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Article L2232-20 of the French Labour Code

The subject and frequency of negotiations as well as the necessary information to be given in advance to the trade union representatives of the company or establishment are set by agreement between the employer and the representative trade union organisations in the company, under the conditions provided for in articles L. 2222-3 and L. 2222-3-1 and without prejudice to the provisions provided for in articles L. 2242-1 et seq. relating…

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