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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 4: Revision.

Article L2261-7

I. - The following are authorised to initiate the procedure for revising a cross-industry agreement, an agreement or a branch agreement 1° Until the end of the electoral cycle during which the agreeme…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Common provisions.

Article L2281-7

If the employer fails to take the initiative within a period of one year in the event of an agreement, or three years in the absence of an agreement, negotiations must begin at the request of a repres…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter IIIa: Relationship between group agreements, inter-company agreements, company agreements and establishment agreements

Article L2253-7

Where an agreement concluded at the level of several undertakings expressly so provides, its stipulations shall replace the stipulations having the same object in agreements or arrangements concluded…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Membership of company boards of directors or supervisory boards

Article L2312-73

The members of the staff delegation on the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board are entitled to the same documents as those sent or given to the members of these bodies at their meetings. They…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Organisation of elections.

Article L2314-7

The pre-electoral agreement may modify the number of seats or the number of individual delegation hours, provided that the total number of hours for each college is at least equal to that provided for…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Subsection 6: Membership of company boards of directors or supervisory boards

Article L2312-76

In simplified joint stock companies, the Articles of Association shall specify the corporate body to which the members of the staff delegation of the Social and Economic Committee shall exercise the r…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 5: Social alert rights

Article L2312-70

When the number of employees holding fixed-term employment contracts and the number of temporary employees has increased significantly compared with the situation at the last meeting of the Social and…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Scope of expertise

Article L2315-78

The Social and Economic Committee may, where appropriate on the recommendation of the committees set up within it, decide to use the services of a chartered accountant or a qualified expert in the cas…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 1: Scope of expertise

Article L2315-79

A company agreement, or failing that, an agreement concluded between the employer and the Social and Economic Committee, adopted by a majority of the elected full members of the staff delegation, dete…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Composition

Article L2316-7

Each representative trade union organisation in the company appoints a representative to the central company social and economic committee chosen either from among the representatives of this organisa…

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