Part One: Individual employment relations

In the event of an appeal relating to redundancy for economic reasons, and within a period of eight days from the date on which it receives the summons to appear before the conciliation and referral office, the employer shall submit or send to the registry by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt the information mentioned in article L. 1235-9 so that it can be added to the file. Within the…

The conciliation and orientation session takes place within one month of the referral to the industrial tribunal.

Pre-trial measures shall be carried out within a period not exceeding three months. This time limit may only be extended by the adjudicating office at the reasoned request of the technician or the assigned Conseiller-Rapporteur.

The conciliation and referral office sets the date for the hearing of the adjudication office, which will give its decision within a period that may not exceed six months from the date on which the case was referred to it, or three months when the case is referred to the restricted panel.

When, during the session provided for in article R. 1456-2, a section of the industrial tribunal is seised by several claimants of proceedings contesting the economic reason for a collective redundancy, the conciliation and referral office orders that they be joined.