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Article L2241-15 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements meet, at least once every five years, to examine the need to revise the classifications. These negotiations shall take into account the objective of professional equality between men and women and job diversity. When an average pay gap between women and men is identified, the organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements,…

Article L2241-16 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements, meet once every five years to start negotiations on setting up one or more inter-company savings plans or collective inter-company company retirement savings plans where no agreement has been concluded at this level on the matter.

Article L2241-17 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The annual and five-yearly negotiations provided for in Articles L. 2241-8 and L. 2241-15 also aim to define and plan measures to eliminate pay differentials between women and men.

Article L2241-18 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

The agreement aimed at eliminating pay differentials concluded following the annual and five-yearly negotiations is filed with the administrative authority under the conditions defined in article L. 2231-6. If no agreement is filed or no minutes of disagreement are sent to this authority, containing the parties’ proposals as they stand, the joint committee referred to in article L. 2261-20 is convened on the initiative of the Minister for Labour in…

Article L2242-1 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

In companies where one or more trade union sections of representative organisations have been set up, the employer shall initiate negotiations at least once every four years: 1° Negotiations on remuneration, in particular actual salaries, working hours and the sharing of added value within the company; 2° Negotiations on professional equality between women and men, including measures to eliminate pay differentials and the quality of life and working conditions.

Article L2242-2 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

In undertakings and groups of undertakings within the meaning of article L. 2331-1 with at least three hundred employees, as well as in Community-scale undertakings and groups of undertakings within the meaning of articles L. 2341-1 and L. 2341-2 with at least one establishment or undertaking with at least one hundred and fifty employees in France, the employer undertakes, at least once every four years, in addition to the negotiations…

Article L2242-3 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

In the absence of an agreement on professional equality between women and men at the end of the negotiations referred to in 2° of article L. 2242-1, the employer draws up an annual action plan designed to ensure professional equality between women and men. After assessing the objectives set and the measures taken during the previous year, this action plan, based on clear, precise and operational criteria, determines the progress…

Article L2242-4 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

As long as the negotiations referred to in articles L. 2242-1 and L. 2242-2 are underway, the employer may not take unilateral decisions concerning the employees as a whole, except in cases of urgency.

Article L2242-5 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

If, at the end of the negotiations, no agreement has been reached, a statement of disagreement is drawn up in which the respective proposals of the parties and the measures that the employer intends to apply unilaterally are recorded in their final form. These minutes are filed, on the initiative of the earliest party, in accordance with the conditions laid down by regulation.

Article L2242-6 of the French Labour Code

November 7, 2023

Collective company agreements on actual salaries may only be filed with the administrative authority, under the conditions set out in article L. 2231-6, if accompanied by a report on the opening of negotiations on pay differentials between women and men, recording the respective proposals of the parties. The minutes certify that the employer has entered into negotiations seriously and fairly. The serious and fair commencement of negotiations implies that, in…

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Article L2241-15 of the French Labour Code

Article L2241-16 of the French Labour Code

Article L2241-17 of the French Labour Code

Article L2241-18 of the French Labour Code

Article L2242-1 of the French Labour Code

Article L2242-2 of the French Labour Code

Article L2242-3 of the French Labour Code

Article L2242-4 of the French Labour Code

Article L2242-5 of the French Labour Code

Article L2242-6 of the French Labour Code

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