Our team is also on hand to advise on collective issues such as staff regulations (internal working rules, unilateral practices and commitments, application of collective bargaining agreements, etc.) or monitoring employee representation institutions (employee delegates and delegations (DUP), works councils (CE), joint safety committee (CHCT)) – elections, setting agendas, information, mandatory consultations, management of delegation hours, committee regulations, IT charters, etc.

Since mobility is intrinsic to businesses, our teams can also advise on company restructuring and reorganisation: denunciation of use, unilateral commitments, standardisation of collective and individual measures, reorganisation of representative bodies, substitution agreements, etc.

Faced with a constantly evolving economic and social environment, In Extenso Avocats uses a methodical approach to assist clients with collective bargaining. This entails conducting an environmental, functional and mechanical study to best understand the particular characteristics of a client’s business activities.

Our assistance in social litigation

In Extenso Avocats conducts litigation before all employment tribunals and courts :

• Employment tribunals and court of appeals: defending employers in common law disputes, challenging medical opinions on incapacity, etc.
• Social security tribunals: inexcusable faults, disputes with social security organisations (URSSAF, MSA, RSI, ENIM), social insurance recoveries (URSSAF), recognition of workplace accidents and occupational diseases, requests for rebates on surcharges for late payment, etc.
• Incapacity dispute courts: technical litigation on the state of incapacity, litigation with regard to rates applied by obligatory insurance organisations, etc.
• First instance civil courts (TGI) – criminal court: workplace accidents, invisible or undeclared labour, collective action, denunciation of collective bargaining agreements, etc.

• Local civil courts (TI): contestation of employee representative elections, litigation in maritime social security legislation, etc.
• Administrative tribunals: contesting labour inspectorate decisions (protected employee)
• Commercial court: commencing insolvency proceedings
• Proceedings before the First President of the Court of Appeal and the enforcement judge: suspension of provisional enforcement, stay of proceedings and enforcement