Section 1: Appointment of the mediator

The lists of mediators to be appointed for a regional, departmental or local dispute are drawn up by the Regional Director of Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment, after consultation with representative employers’ and employees’ organisations at national level. These organisations have one month to submit their observations. The lists of mediators shall include at least ten names of persons chosen in accordance with the conditions set out in…

The list of mediators to be appointed by the Minister responsible for labour for a dispute with a national impact or whose impact extends to more than one region shall include at least thirty names of personalities. This list is common to both agricultural and non-agricultural professions and is drawn up jointly by the ministers responsible for labour and agriculture. Employers’ and employees’ organisations that are representative at national level…

The lists of mediators are reviewed every three years. They may be added to at any time.

The mediation procedure is initiated: 1° Either after a conciliation procedure has failed, by the Minister responsible for labour or by the chairman of the regional conciliation commission, at the request of one of the parties or on his own initiative; 2° Or directly, in accordance with the provisions of the third paragraph of article L. 2522-1, by the Minister responsible for labour or, if the dispute has regional, departmental…

Where the scale of the dispute, its geographical impact, the number of employees involved or the particular circumstances in which it arose so require, the mediator may be appointed by the Minister for Labour.

Mediators may call upon experts and qualified persons who have not been banned, disqualified or disqualified from exercising their civic rights.