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Labour Court Elections
The French Labour Court elections () were held every five years to elect the lay judges, known as ''conseillers prud'homaux'', who arbitrated individual labor disputes within the ''Conseil de prud'hommes'' (French Labour Court), a specialized court tasked with resolving conflicts between employees and employers governed by labor law. The elections were abolished in 2014, with the last elections having taken place in 2008, and the final elected mandate of councilors concluding on December 31, 2017. Purpose The Labor Court elections served as a mechanism to select nearly 15,000 lay judges who represented the interests of both employees and employers in disputes over employment contracts, dismissals, or other labor-related conflicts. The elections were also a means to measure the influence of trade unions A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Labour Court
In France, the Labour Courts or employment tribunals () resolve individual disputes arising out of an employment contract. The dispute is resolved by a judgment only if conciliation cannot be achieved by the court. Judges are not professionals; currently appointed, they were traditionally French Labour Court elections, elected by their peers, with an even number of judges. Half the members represent employers, and half represent employees. Labour courts were created at the beginning of the 19th century.{{Cite web , url=http://www.chambersandpartners.com/guide/practice-guides/location/241/6593/1418-200 , title=FRANCE - LAW & PRACTICE , access-date=2016-02-10 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026165510/http://www.chambersandpartners.com/guide/practice-guides/location/241/6593/1418-200 , archive-date=2016-10-26 , url-status=dead An employment tribunal is divided into five specialised divisions, for management, manufacturing, distributive trades and commercial services, ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions In France
A list of trade unions in France: *Five confederations recognized by the state as representative trade union: **''Confédération générale du travail'' (CGT) **'' Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail'' (CFDT) **''Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens'' (CFTC) **'' Confédération Française de l'Encadrement - Confédération Générale des Cadres'' (CFE-CGC) **'' Confédération générale du travail - Force Ouvrière'' (FO) *Other large unions: ** '' Union nationale des syndicats autonomes'' (UNSA) ** '' Solidaires'' *Regional Unions: ** ''Confédération générale du travail - Martinique'' (CGTM) in Martinique ** '' Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe'' (CGTM) in Guadeloupe ** '' Corsican Workers' Trade Union'' (STC) in Corsica ** ''Syndicat des Travailleurs de Bretagne'' (STB) in Brittany ** ''Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak'' (LAB) in Basque country ** '' Union syndicale des travailleurs kanaks et des exploités'' (USTKE) in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and Employee benefits, benefits, improving Work (human activity), working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The union representatives in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members through internal democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, bargains with the employer on behalf of its members, known as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Confederation Of Labour (France)
The General Confederation of Labour (, , CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It is the largest in terms of votes in the Labour Court elections (34.0% in the 2008 election), and second largest in terms of membership numbers. Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981), before increasing today to between 700,000 and 720,000 members, slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). According to the historian M. Dreyfus, the direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance. The CGT is concentrating its attention, in particular since the 1995 general strikes, to trade-unionism in the private sector. History The CGT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Democratic Confederation Of Labour
The French Democratic Confederation of Labour (, CFDT) is a national trade union center, one of the five major French confederations of trade unions, led since 2023 by . It is the second largest French trade union confederation by number of members (625,000) and recently becoming first in voting results for representative bodies, having traditionally been second. History The CFDT has its roots in Christian trade unionism of the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC). After the Liberation of France, a left-wing minority, grouped in the Reconstruction tendency, led an internal debate in favour of the “deconfessionalization” seeking to secularise the CFTC and achieve greater autonomy from political and religious circles with which the confederation's leadership had been associated. The Reconstruction movement also campaigned for left-wing, social democracy and democratic trade unionism without being Marxist, and against the European treaties deemed to restore a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Confederation Of Labour - Workers' Force
The General Confederation of Labor - Workers' Force (, or simply , FO), is one of the five major union confederations in France. In terms of following, it is the third behind the CGT and the CFDT. Force Ouvrière was founded in 1948 by former members of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) who denounced the dominance of the French Communist Party over that federation. FO is a member of the European Trade Union Confederation. Its leader is Frédéric Souillot, since June 2022. History After World War II, members of the French Communist Party attained considerable influence within the CGT, controlling 21 of its 30 federations. The communists, at the time in the French government, used their positions inside the CGT to stop strikes in the name of the "battle for national production". Maurice Thorez, the leader of the PCF, make a telling declaration : "Strike is the tool of the capitalist trusts". For quite a number of union members, this attitude is a betrayal of the 1906 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Confederation Of Christian Workers
The French Confederation of Christian Workers (; CFTC) is one of the five major French confederation of trade unions, belonging to the social Christian tradition. It was founded in 1919 as the Trade Union of Employees of Industry and Commerce under the inspiration of Exupérien Mas with the goal of safeguarding the material as well as the spiritual interests of its members. In 1964, the union split, a majority founding the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), a non-confessional trade-union. The CFTC is a member of the International Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Confederation. Its leader is Jacques Voisin. Professional elections The CFTC won 8.69% of the vote in the employee's college during the 2008 professional elections. This result, however, is below the CFTC's 9.65% result in 2002, its best showing to date. In 2021 the CFTC won 11% of the vote.https://www.vie-publique.fr/en-bref/280126-representativite-syndicale-la-cfdt-premier-syn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Confederation Of Management – General Confederation Of Executives
The French Confederation of Management – General Confederation of Executives (, CFE-CGC) is one of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It only organizes unions for professional employees, with higher education and/or in management or executive positions. It originated from several former unions of engineers Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while consider ... in 1945. Its leader is François Hommeril. Professional Elections The CFE-CGC won 8.19% of the vote in the employee's college during the 2008 professional elections, its best result to date. It had won 7.01% in 2002. Affiliates The following federations and unions are affiliated: *Federation of the food industry (CFE-CGC Agro) *Federation of Water and Sanitation (FDEA CFE-CGC) *Insurance Federation *F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Union Of Autonomous Trade Unions
The National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions (, UNSA) is one of the French confederations of trade unions, but they do not have the of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT), Workers' Force (CGT-FO), French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC) and French Confederation of Management – General Confederation of Executives (CFE-CGC). Profile The UNSA wishes to gather the reformist unions, founded on independence and dialogue with employers. However, the UNSA is not strongly implanted everywhere in France, and received most votes from the white-collar workers and the engineers. The UNSA challenges the entrenched leadership of the reformist unions: the CFDT, CFTC and CFE-CGC, though the UNSA often co-operates with these unions. Professional elections The UNSA won 6.25% of the vote in the employee's college during the 2008 French Labour Court elections, its best result to date. It had won 4.99% in 2002. See also * Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques
The Union syndicale Solidaires, Solidaires or Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques (SUD) is a French group of trade unions. Political position They tend to favor progressive or even radical views and work with the alter-globalization or anti-globalization movement. The Group of 10 and the SUD Unions are part of the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum. Most of the SUD trade-union practice a syndicalism of struggle (''syndicalisme de lutte''), like factions of the CGT, FO and the CNT. That places it in opposition to the reformist or negotiation unions: the CFDT, Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens (CFTC), CFE-CGC and Union nationale des syndicats autonomes (UNSA). Many members of SUD are also members of the New Anticapitalist Party, but there are also communist, socialist, ecologist, and anarchist sympathizers within the union. History The Group of 10 was created in 1981 by autonomous unions, such as the SNUI, or the SNJ, organiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confederation Of Free Trade Unions (France)
The Confederation of Free Trade Unions (''Confédération des syndicats libres'', CSL) was a French trade union confederation created in the 1950s. It was considered close to employers and on the right. Initially called the Confédération française du travail (CFT), it changed its name in 1977 following public outrage after a unionist was killed by CFT members. The CSL dissolved in 2002. It was primarily active in the automobile industry, the postal service, and the city administration of Paris. History The French Confederation of Labor (1959–1977) Post-war period In 1947, the Confederation of Independent Labor (''Confédération du travail indépendant'', CTI) was founded but suffered from power struggles and splits. The CTI included former communist unionists, activists from the Syndicats movement led by René Belin, and members of the Rally of the French People (RPF), the party created by General Charles de Gaulle. In 1959, the CFT was founded by merging unions that had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
