Home » HR practices » Professional development » Legal developments » National legislation » France: law to reform industrial relations gets adopted France: law to reform industrial relations gets adopted On 23 July, the French parliament gave final approval to adopt a draft law to simplify employee representation bodies and alleviate the level of formalism that so often characterizes social dialogue in the French system. Companies with fewer than 300 employees will be able to integrate their employee bodies (works council, health and safety committee, and employee delegates). Companies with 300 and more employees can, after majority agreement, alter their employee representative architecture. On the other hand however, the law also gives employee representatives new rights to promote union involvement. Through . Published on 24 July 2015 Ă 9h15 - Update on 24 July 2015 Ă 13h03 Resources Simplifying employee representation bodies. The new law allows companies to regroup both bodies and procedures. Thus, companies with more 300 employees or more can, after receiving majority agreement, regroup all or some of their current employee representation bodies: employee delegates (DP), works councils (EC), and the health and safety committees (CHSCT) and the agreement can set out the operation rules (number of meetings, number of delegation hours accorded, training days, etc.). The ability for the single employee delegation (DUP),… Labor market reforms in France Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageRGPD J’accepte la politique de confidentialitĂ©.NameThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels