Chapter I: Application for authorisation and assessment of the application

The Labour Inspector will conduct an adversarial investigation during which the employee may, at his request, be assisted by a representative of his trade union. Notwithstanding the previous paragraph, when the employee is included in a redundancy for economic reasons and the request concerns at least twenty-five employees benefiting from the protection provided for in article L. 2411-1, the Labour Inspector will give the employee the opportunity to present his…

The Labour Inspector’s decision shall state the reasons on which it is based. It is notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt: 1° To the employer; 2° To the employee; 3° To the trade union organisation concerned in the case of a trade union representative.

When one or more of the employees referred to in article L. 2421-3 is to be made redundant for economic reasons affecting ten or more employees within the same thirty-day period , the employer must attach to the application for authorisation to make the redundancies a copy of the notification of the proposed redundancies sent to the administrative authority in application of article L. 1233-46.

In the event of serious misconduct, the employer may lay off the employee immediately pending the decision of the labour inspector. The Social and Economic Committee shall be consulted within ten days of the date of the lay-off. The application for authorisation to dismiss shall be submitted within forty-eight hours of the Social and Economic Committee’s decision. If the opinion of the social and economic committee is not required under…

The request made pursuant to the third paragraph of article L. 2421-3 shall state the reasons for the proposed dismissal. It is sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. It shall give rise to the application of the provisions of articles R. 2421-11 to R. 2421-14.

The Labour Inspector and, in the event of an appeal through the hierarchy, the Minister shall examine in particular whether the proposed dismissal is related to the mandate held, applied for or previously exercised by the person concerned.

The opinion issued by the Social and Economic Committee as part of the consultation carried out in application of article L. 2421-3 is expressed by secret ballot after hearing the interested party.