The 2013 job security law imposed the designation of directors representing employees on the boards of certain companies.
This mainly concerns public limited companies with a board of directors or a management board and a supervisory board. These companies must then employ, at the end of two consecutive years, at least 5,000 employees if their head office is in France. For companies whose head office is abroad, the obligation applies when the company employs at least 10,000 employees. When the board of directors is made up of less than 12 members, it must include at least one director representing the employees.
Beyond that, at least 2 directors representing employees must be elected or appointed. On June 3, 2015, a decree (decree no. 2015-606 of June 3, 2015 relating to the time required for directors or members of the supervisory board elected or appointed by employees to exercise their mandate and the terms of their training within the company) has been taken for the application of these provisions and specifies the time available to these directors to carry out their mission and the training methods.
These directors thus have training time which may not be less than twenty hours per year and preparation time which may not be less than fifteen hours nor more than half of the legal monthly working time per meeting. of the board of directors or the committee.
