Paragraph 2: Negotiation procedures.

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.

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…

Time spent negotiating is paid as normal working time.

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.

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…