Part One: Individual employment relations

An employee who is a member of a labour tribunal and who has signed a fixed-term contract for a number of days over the year is entitled to continue to receive all of his remuneration and the corresponding benefits, in respect of the performance of his labour tribunal duties. The employer is reimbursed the amount of the remuneration that he has had to continue to receive in this respect, in…

Industrial tribunal members are reimbursed for the travel expenses they incur in carrying out the activities listed in article R. 1423-55 under the conditions laid down by decree no. 2006-781 of 3 July 2006 setting the conditions and procedures for payment of expenses incurred by the temporary travel of State civil servants. The seat of the industrial tribunal is deemed to be the administrative residence. By way of derogation, the…

The number of compensable hours that an industrial tribunal member may claim to have devoted to studying the cases referred to in 2° of article R. 1423-55 may not exceed the periods set out in the table below: ACTIVITY NUMBER OF HOURS compensable Preparatory study of cases prior to the hearing. Conciliation and referral office: 30 minutes per hearing. Judgement office: 1 hour per hearing. Summary proceedings: 30 minutes per…

The number of compensable hours that an industrial tribunal member may claim to have devoted to drafting the decisions and minutes referred to in f of 2° of Article R. 1423-55 may not exceed the periods set out in the table below: PURPOSE OF DRAFTING NUMBER OF COMPENSABLE HOURS Conciliation minutes 30 minutes Judgement 5 hours Order 1 hour If the adviser spends more time than this drafting a judgment,…

The time that the presiding judge of the summary proceedings panel or the adjudication panel may have devoted to rereading and signing the decisions mentioned in g of 2° of article R. 1423-55 is set at fifteen minutes per case.

The number of compensable hours that an industrial tribunal member may claim to have devoted to drafting decisions that are clearly linked, in particular because of the identity of a party, the subject matter or the cause of action, and which have not been joined, may not exceed the periods set out in the table below: NUMBER OF DECISIONS to be drafted MAXIMUM NUMBER of compensable hours 2 to 25…

Attendance by industrial tribunal members at preparatory meetings for the council’s general meetings, section meetings or chamber meetings referred to in d of 1° of article R. 1423-55 is compensated up to a limit of three meetings per year and for a total duration of no more than six hours.

A record of the time spent on the compensable activities mentioned in Article R. 1423-55 is kept at the court registry for each industrial tribunal member. The identification as well as the start and end times of each activity are declared by the industrial tribunal member. For the activities mentioned in c, d and e of 2° of article R. 1423-55, these times are specified at the end of the…

Any difficulty encountered by the director of the court registry or the president of the industrial tribunal in certifying or checking the statement mentioned in articles D. 1423-58 and D. 1423-59, after they have informed each other, is brought to the attention of the first president and the public prosecutor of the court of appeal or the person to whom they have jointly delegated their signature in their capacity as…