Chapter I: Scope of application

In public companies whose employees are subject to statutory or regulatory working conditions, profit-sharing agreements may set a maximum amount to be distributed up to a limit of one-fifth of the total gross salaries paid to the employees concerned.

In public companies, profit-sharing agreements may only come into force after they have been approved by a decree issued by the Minister for the Economy and the Minister responsible for the company, following the opinion of the Interministerial Commission for the Coordination of Wages.

The provisions of this Title also apply to the persons mentioned in Articles L. 3312-2 and L. 3312-3.

Employees of an employers’ group that has not set up a profit-sharing scheme may benefit from the profit-sharing scheme set up in each of the companies in the group to which they are seconded if the agreement so provides.