Subsection 4: Industrial tribunal members

The employment tribunal activities referred to in Article L. 1442-5 are :

1° The following activities relating to the role of employee representative:

a) Taking the oath ;

b) Setting up the industrial tribunal ;

c) Attendance at general meetings of the Council, section or chamber meetings and the restricted formation provided for in article R. 1423-27;

d) Attendance at preparatory meetings for the meetings provided for in c);

e) Participation in committees provided for by legislative or regulatory provisions or set up by the internal rules of procedure;

f) Attendance at the official opening of the court ;

g) Reminders by the First President of the obligations provided for in Article L. 1442-13-1 ;

h) Interviews, preliminary hearings and appearances before the Commission nationale de discipline des conseillers prud'hommes referred to in Article L. 1442-13-2 ;

i) Assisting or representing a councillor during the interviews, hearings and appearances referred to in the previous paragraph;

j) Completion of the compulsory initial training provided for in articles L. 1442-1 and L. 1442-2.

2° The following jurisdictional activities :

a) The preparatory study of a case file, prior to the hearing of the summary proceedings panel, the conciliation and referral office or the judgment office, by the president of the panel or office or by an adviser designated by him;

b) The investigative measures provided for in Section 1 of Chapter IV of Title V of this Book, initiated by the Conseiller-Rapporteur, and the drafting of his report;

c) Attendance at the hearing of the summary proceedings panel, the conciliation and referral office or the adjudication office, as well as the hearing of the reconciliation panel and the hearing provided for in 2° of Article L. 1454-1-1 ;

d) The study of a case file after the hearing at which the case is examined and prior to the deliberation by two members, one an employer, the other an employee, of the summary proceedings panel or the adjudication committee, who are designated, in this case, by the chairman of the committee;

e) Participating in the deliberations;

f) Drafting decisions and minutes, at the seat of the industrial tribunal or outside the tribunal;

g) rereading and signing by the chairman of the summary proceedings panel or the adjudication committee of decisions that have been drafted by another member of one of these panels;

3° The administrative activities of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Council provided for in articles R. 1423-7 and R. 1423-31 ;

4° The administrative activities of the section chairmen and vice-chairmen.

5° The administrative activities of the chairmen and vice-chairmen of the chambers.

The terms of compensation for the activities mentioned in this article are set by the decree provided for in 2° of article R. 1423-51.