A health, safety and working conditions committee is set up within the social and economic committee in: 1° Companies with at least three hundred employees; 2° Separate establishments with at least three hundred employees; 3° Establishments referred to in Articles L. 4521-1 et seq.
In separate undertakings and establishments with fewer than three hundred employees, the labour inspector may require the creation of a health, safety and working conditions committee where this is necessary, in particular due to the nature of the activities, layout or equipment of the premises. This decision may be challenged before the Regional Director for Business, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment.
The Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee is entrusted, by delegation from the Social and Economic Committee, with all or part of the Committee’s powers relating to health, safety and working conditions, with the exception of the use of an expert as provided for in sub-section 10 and the Committee’s consultative powers.
The committee is chaired by the employer or his representative. It comprises at least three employee representatives, including at least one representative of the second college, or where applicable the third college, as provided for in Article L. 2314-11. The members of the health, safety and working conditions committee are appointed by the social and economic committee from among its members, by a resolution adopted in accordance with the procedures…
The company agreement defined in article L. 2313-2 sets out the procedures for setting up the health, safety and working conditions committee(s) in application of articles L. 2315-36 and L. 2315-37, by defining: 1° The number of members of the committee(s); 2° The tasks delegated to the committee(s) by the Social and Economic Committee and the procedures for carrying them out; 3° Their operating procedures, in particular the number of…
In the absence of a trade union delegate, an agreement between the employer and the Social and Economic Committee, adopted by a majority of the elected full members of the Committee’s staff delegation, lays down the procedures for setting up the health, safety and working conditions committee(s) referred to in 1° to 6° of Article L. 2315-41.
Apart from the cases provided for in Articles L. 2315-36 and L. 2315-37, the company agreement defined in Article L. 2313-2 or, in the absence of a trade union delegate, an agreement between the employer and the social and economic committee, adopted by a majority of the elected full members of the committee’s staff delegation, may set the number and scope of the health, safety and working conditions committee(s) and…
In the absence of an agreement as provided for in Articles L. 2315-41 and L. 2315-42, the internal rules of procedure of the social and economic committee set out the arrangements referred to in 1° to 6° of Article L. 2315-41. In the absence of an agreement under Article L. 2315-43, the employer may set the number and scope of one or more health, safety and working conditions committees. The…
A contracts committee is created within the social and economic committee which exceeds, for at least two of the three criteria mentioned in II of article L. 2315-64, thresholds set by decree.
For contracts where the value exceeds a threshold set by decree, the Social and Economic Committee, acting on a proposal from the Contracts Committee, determines the criteria used to select the Committee’s suppliers and service providers and the procedure for purchasing supplies, services and works. The contracts committee chooses the committee’s suppliers and service providers. It reports on these choices to the Committee at least once a year, in accordance…
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