Chapter I: Missions.

The National Commission for Collective Bargaining, Employment and Vocational Training is responsible for :

1° Proposing to the Minister for Labour any measures likely to facilitate the development of collective bargaining, in particular with a view to harmonising the definitions used in branch agreements;

2° Issuing an opinion on draft laws, ordinances and decrees relating to the general rules governing individual and collective labour relations, in particular those concerning collective bargaining and incentive, profit-sharing and employee savings schemes covered by Book III of Part Three, as well as in the field of employment policy, guidance and initial and continuing vocational training;

3° Giving a reasoned opinion to the competent Minister on the extension and widening of collective agreements and on the repeal of extension or widening decrees;

4° To give, at the request of at least half of the members of the competent interpretation committee to which the matter has been referred, an opinion on the interpretation of the clauses of a collective agreement;

5° To give a reasoned opinion to the Minister of Labour on the setting of the minimum growth wage in the cases provided for in Articles L. 3231-6 and L. 3231-10 , after having taken note of the annual report drawn up by a group of experts appointed for this purpose;

6° Monitoring changes in actual salaries and minimum salaries set by collective agreements, as well as changes in salaries in public companies;

7° Examining the annual collective bargaining report;

8° To monitor annually the application in collective agreements of the principle of "equal pay for equal work", the principle of professional equality between women and men and the principle of equal treatment between employees irrespective of their actual or assumed membership or non-membership of an ethnic group, nation or race, as well as measures taken in favour of the right to work of disabled persons, to note any persistent inequalities and to analyse the causes thereof. The National Commission is empowered to make any proposals to the Minister for Labour to promote these principles of equality in practice and in legislation;

9° To monitor changes in the employment rate of people over the age of fifty on an annual basis, in order to make any proposals to the Minister responsible for labour to encourage them to remain in work or return to work;

10° To issue an opinion on :

a) The draft multi-year agreement defined in Article L. 5312-3 ;

b) Approval of the unemployment insurance agreements mentioned in Article L. 5422-20;

c) Training plans organised by the State in application of I and II of article L. 6122-1.