Section 3: Term of office and termination.

The members of the staff delegation of the social and economic committee are elected for four years. The number of successive mandates is limited to three, except: 1° For companies with less than fifty employees; 2° For companies with between fifty and three hundred employees, if the agreement provided for in article L. 2314-6 stipulates otherwise. The maximum number of successive mandates set in the second paragraph of this article…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article L. 2314-33, a branch agreement, a group agreement or a company agreement, as the case may be, may set the term of office of the employee representatives on the committee at between two and four years.

When there is a change in the legal situation of the employer as referred to in Article L. 1224-1, the mandate of the elected members of the staff delegation of the social and economic committee and of the trade union representatives of the undertaking which has been the subject of the change continues when this undertaking retains its legal autonomy. If this undertaking becomes an establishment within the meaning of…

Any member of the Social and Economic Committee staff delegation may be dismissed during his/her term of office on a proposal made by the trade union organisation that nominated him/her, with the agreement obtained by secret ballot of the majority of the electoral college to which he/she belongs.

When a titular delegate ceases to perform his duties for one of the reasons indicated in the present section or is temporarily absent for any reason whatsoever, he is replaced by a substitute elected on a list presented by the same trade union organisation as that of the titular delegate. Priority is given to the elected substitute from the same category. If there is no elected substitute on a list…