French Labour Code
In forceThe agreement providing for the collective termination of employment by mutual agreement determines :
1° The terms and conditions for informing the Social and Economic Committee, if one exists ;
2° The maximum number of departures envisaged, the associated job cuts, and the length of time during which terminations of employment contracts may be initiated on the basis of the agreement;
3° The conditions that the employee must meet in order to benefit;
4° The procedures for presenting and examining employees' applications to leave, including the conditions for transmitting the employee's written agreement to the scheme provided for by the collective agreement;
4° bis The procedures for concluding an individual termination agreement between the employer and the employee and for exercising the parties' right of withdrawal;
5° The methods for calculating the severance payments guaranteed to the employee, which may not be less than the statutory payments due in the event of dismissal;
6° Criteria for deciding between potential candidates for departure;
7° Measures aimed at facilitating the support and external redeployment of employees in equivalent jobs, such as mobility leave under the conditions provided for in articles L. 1237-18-1 to L. 1237-18-5, training, validation of acquired experience or retraining actions or actions to support the creation of new activities or the takeover of existing activities by employees;
8° The procedures for monitoring the effective implementation of the agreement on the Collective Collective Bargaining Agreement.
In accordance with the provisions of X of Article 40 and III ofArticle 10 of Order No. 2017-1387 of 22 September 2017, the provisions resulting from Article 10 of said Order and requiring implementing measures come into force on the date of publication of the implementing decrees, and no later than 1 January 2018.
