Paragraph 1: Application requirements

Subject to the provisions of Article L. 1441-7, the following may stand for election: 1° Employees and employers ; 2° Job seekers registered on the list of job seekers; 3° Persons who have ceased all professional activity.

Candidates must 1° Be of French nationality ; 2° They must not have any entries in bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record that are incompatible with the exercise of industrial tribunal functions and must not be subject to any prohibition, disqualification or incapacity relating to their civic rights; 3° Be at least twenty-one years old; 4° Have been in employment for two years or have held an industrial tribunal…

The candidacy conditions defined in 1° and 2° of article L. 1441-7 are assessed on the date of appointment. The candidacy conditions defined in 3° and 4° of article L. 1441-7 and those relating to the industrial tribunal, the college and the candidacy section are assessed on the opening date for filing candidacies, set by regulation.

No person may be a candidate : 1° On more than one list mentioned in article L. 1441-18; 2° In more than one section; 3° In an industrial tribunal, college or section other than those for which he fulfils the conditions to be a candidate.

A councillor who has been dismissed pursuant to article L. 1442-14 may not stand as a candidate. An appointed councillor who refuses to be installed, who is declared to have resigned or who is deemed to have resigned pursuant to article L. 1442-1, may not be a candidate for a period of four years from the date of his refusal, from the date of the court decision declaring him to…