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Article L2373-8 of the French Labour Code

Once the number of seats on the administrative or supervisory body has been determined under the conditions provided for in Article L. 2373-7, the committee of the company resulting from the cross-border operation shall ensure that they are allocated in proportion to the number of employees of the company employed in each Member State of the European Union. By way of derogation from the first paragraph, the committee shall, as…

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Article L2374-1 of the French Labour Code

When a company resulting from a cross-border merger is registered, the agreement referred to in Article L. 2372-6 or a collective agreement concluded at the appropriate level may decide to abolish or to adjust the operating conditions, possibly in the form of a redefinition of their national scope of operation, of the staff representative bodies which would disappear as a result of the loss of the legal autonomy of one…

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Article L2374-2 of the French Labour Code

Where an employee participation system exists in the company resulting from the cross-border operation, that company shall be required, for a period of four years after the cross-border operation, to take the measures necessary to protect employee participation in the event of subsequent national operations in accordance with the rules laid down in this Title.

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Article L2374-3 of the French Labour Code

The employees’ representatives sitting on the administrative or supervisory body, or participating in the general meeting or in the section or branch meetings of the company resulting from the cross-border operation, are bound by the professional secrecy and obligation of discretion provided for in Article L. 2315-3.

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Article L2374-4 of the French Labour Code

Employee representatives sitting on the administrative or supervisory body, or participating in the general meeting or in the section or branch meetings of the company resulting from the cross-border operation, benefit from the protection instituted by Article L. 2411-1.

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Article L2375-1 of the French Labour Code

Obstructing either the establishment of a special negotiating body or a committee of the company resulting from the cross-border merger, whether or not set up by agreement, or the free appointment of their members, is punishable by one year’s imprisonment and a fine of €7,500. Obstructing their regular operation is punishable by a fine of €7,500.

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Article L23-111-1 of the French Labour Code

I.-An inter-professional joint committee is set up at regional level to represent employees and employers in companies with fewer than eleven employees. II.It represents the employees and employers of companies with fewer than eleven employees in branches that have not set up regional or, where applicable, departmental joint committees when their geographical scope covers an entire region, by means of a branch agreement or a national, cross-industry or multi-sector agreement…

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Article L23-112-1 of the French Labour Code

The regional cross-industry joint committee is made up of twenty members, employees and employers of companies with fewer than eleven employees, appointed by the employees’ trade union organisations and by the employers’ professional organisations under the following conditions: 1° Ten seats are allocated to employees’ trade union organisations whose statutory vocation is cross-industry in nature, in proportion to their audience in the region among the employees that the commission represents…

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Article L23-112-2 of the French Labour Code

In the context of the ballot referred to in articles L. 2122-10-1 and L. 2122-6, the candidate employee trade union organisations referred to in article L. 2122-10-6 may indicate on their electoral propaganda the identity of the employees they intend to appoint to the cross-industry regional joint committees, up to a limit of ten employees per organisation. This propaganda may be differentiated by region. The identity of the employees appearing…

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