Section 3: Mutual funding of employee trade unions and professional employers' organisations

A joint fund, entrusted with a public service mission, providing a contribution to the financing of employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations, in respect of their participation in the design, implementation, evaluation or monitoring of activities contributing to the development and exercise of the missions defined in article L. 2135-11, shall be created by an agreement concluded between the representative organisations of employees and employers at national and…

I. – The resources of the joint fund are made up of : 1° A contribution from the employers mentioned in article L. 2111-1 of the present code, based on the remuneration paid to the employees mentioned in the same article and included in the base for social security contributions defined in article L. 242-1 of the social security code and article L. 741-10 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing…

The joint fund helps to finance the following activities, which constitute missions of general interest for the employees’ trade union organisations and the professional employers’ organisations concerned: 1° The design, management, coordination and evaluation of policies conducted on a joint basis by means of the contribution referred to in 1° of the I of article L. 2135-10 and, where applicable, voluntary contributions paid pursuant to 2° of the same I…

The following shall benefit from the appropriations of the Joint Fund in respect of the performance of the tasks referred to in Article L. 2135-11: 1° Employees’ and employers’ organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level, their territorial organisations, employers’ professional organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level as well as those that are representative at branch level or, in the film production, audiovisual and entertainment…

I.-The joint fund allocates its credits : 1° Equally between employee trade union organisations, on the one hand, and professional employers’ organisations, on the other hand, in respect of the mission mentioned in 1° of article L. 2135-11, at national level and at branch level. The methods for distributing the funds between employee trade union organisations and between professional employers’ organisations are determined by regulation, in a uniform manner for…

The employees’ trade union organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level and those whose statutory vocation is of a national and cross-industry nature and which have received more than 3% of the votes cast in the elections provided for in 3° of article L. 2122-9 collect the sums due to the territorial organisations and trade union organisations that are representative at branch level and are affiliated to them….

I. – The fund referred to in article L. 2135-9 is managed by a joint association, administered by a board of directors made up of representatives of employee trade unions and professional employers’ organisations that are representative at national and cross-industry level. Within this board, each professional employers’ organisation has a number of votes proportional to its audience at national and cross-industry level. To assess this audience, the number of…

The employees’ trade union organisations and the employers’ professional organisations receiving financing from the Joint Fund draw up a written annual report detailing the use made of the appropriations received. They make this report public and send it to the fund within six months of the end of the financial year to which the report relates. If the report is not sent within the time limit stipulated in the second…

Bodies that are managed by a majority of employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations that appear on the list referred to in 2° of I of article L. 2135-10 and whose Board of Directors has decided to pay a contribution to the joint fund do not provide any direct or indirect funding to employees’ trade union organisations and employers’ professional organisations, with the exception of the contribution referred…

Unless otherwise provided, the conditions for the application of this section shall be determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.