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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Negotiation procedures.

Article L2232-17

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 d…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Branch agreements and professional agreements.

Article L2232-10

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 subjec…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Negotiation procedures.

Article L2232-18

Time spent negotiating is paid as normal working time.

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Negotiation procedures.

Article L2232-16

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 esta…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 2: Employee savings schemes

Article L2241-16

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 co…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 2: Economic, social, environmental and trade union training leave

Article L2145-10

Leave for economic, social and environmental training and trade union training cannot be deducted from annual paid leave.It is treated as actual working time for the purposes of determining the durati…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Purpose of agreements.

Article L2221-1

This Book relates to the determination of collective relations between employers and employees. It defines the rules governing the exercise of employees' right to collective bargaining on all their te…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 3: Disabled workers

Article L2241-13

The organisations bound by a branch agreement or, failing that, by professional agreements meet to negotiate, every three years, on measures aimed at the professional integration and continued employm…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter III: Labour agreements concluded in the public sector.

Article L2233-1

In public undertakings and public establishments of an industrial or commercial nature and public establishments determined by decree which perform both an administrative and an industrial and commerc…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal proceedings.

Article L2262-13

It is up to the party challenging the legality of a collective agreement to show that it does not comply with the legal conditions governing it.

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