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Article L2232-8 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

Branch agreements and professional agreements include, for the benefit of company employees taking part in negotiations, as well as in meetings of the joint bodies that they set up, provisions relating to the procedures for exercising the right to be absent, compensation for loss of wages or the maintenance of wages, as well as compensation for travel expenses. For companies with a workforce below a threshold defined by decree of…

Article L2232-9 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

I.-A permanent joint committee for negotiation and interpretation is set up by agreement or convention in each branch. II – The joint committee performs the following tasks of general interest: 1° It represents the industry, in particular in support of companies and vis-à-vis the public authorities; 2° It monitors working conditions and employment; 3° It draws up an annual activity report which it enters in the national database mentioned in…

Article L2232-10 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

Branch or professional agreements set up joint observatories for collective bargaining. They lay down the procedures according to which, in the absence of a conventional stipulation on the same subject, these observatories are to receive company or establishment agreements concluded for the implementation of a legislative provision.

Article L2232-10-1 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

A branch agreement may include, where appropriate in the form of a standard agreement indicating the various choices left to the employer, specific stipulations for companies with fewer than fifty employees. These specific stipulations may relate to all the negotiations provided for in this code. The employer may apply this standard agreement by means of a unilateral document indicating the choices he has made after informing the social and economic…

Article L2232-11 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

This section sets out the conditions under which employees’ right to negotiate at company and group level is exercised. Unless otherwise specified, the term “company agreement” refers to any agreement or arrangement concluded either at group level, at company level or at establishment level.

Article L2232-12 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The validity of a company or establishment agreement is subject to its signature by, on the one hand, the employer or his representative and, on the other hand, one or more representative employee trade union organisations having received more than 50% of the votes cast in favour of representative organisations in the first round of the most recent elections of permanent members to the social and economic committee, whatever the…

Article L2232-13 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The fact that a category-based trade union organisation affiliated to a category-based trade union confederation is recognised as representative of the employees it is statutorily authorised to represent gives it the right to negotiate any provision applicable to that category of employees. Where the agreement or arrangement only concerns a specific professional category covered by an electoral college, its validity is subject to its signature by, on the one hand,…

Article L2232-14 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

In the event of a lack of participation in the first round of professional elections, where the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 2143-23 are applied, the validity of the company or establishment agreement negotiated and concluded with the trade union section representative is subject to its approval by the employees by a majority of the votes cast under conditions determined by decree and in compliance with the…

Article L2232-16 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The company agreement or agreements are negotiated between the employer and the representative employee trade unions in the company. An agreement or agreements may be concluded at the level of an establishment or a group of establishments under the same conditions. The present article is applicable to the revision and denunciation of the agreement or arrangement, regardless of how it was negotiated and ratified.

Article L2232-17 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The delegation from each of the representative organisations involved in negotiations in the company comprises the organisation’s trade union delegate in the company or, where there is more than one delegate, at least two trade union delegates. Each organisation may supplement its delegation with employees from the company, the number of which is set by agreement between the employer and all the organisations mentioned in the first paragraph. In the…

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Article L2232-8 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-9 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-10 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-10-1 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-11 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-12 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-13 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-14 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-16 of the French Labour Code

Article L2232-17 of the French Labour Code

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