#DAG 2026-185Creation of the Joint Consultative Commission for Staff of the Defender of Rights
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This decision creates a joint consultative commission for public-law contract staff and civil servants seconded on contract to the Defender of Rights. The commission gives staff representatives a formal role in reviewing sensitive employment decisions, especially dismissals, non-renewals involving union representatives, and refusals of certain training leave requests. The body will have equal representation from management and staff, with four full members from each side and the same number of substitutes. Staff representatives are elected proportionally for four-year terms, with candidate lists reflecting the gender balance of the workforce.
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Key Changes
- Creates a joint consultative commission for contract staff and civil servants seconded on contract to the Defender of Rights
- Sets equal representation between administration and staff, with four full members from each side plus substitutes
- Defines election rules, four-year mandates, gender-balanced candidate lists, and matters requiring the commission’s opinion
Obligations
What this law requires
The Defender of Rights must maintain a joint consultative commission competent for public-law contract staff and civil servants seconded on contract who work for the institution.
The joint consultative commission must have equal numbers of administration representatives and public-law contract staff representatives, with four full members from each side and an equal number of substitute members.
The Defender of Rights must appoint full and substitute administration representatives within 15 days after proclamation of the professional election results for the joint consultative commission.
Administration representatives appointed to the commission must be selected from category A or equivalent civil servants seconded to the Defender of Rights, or from public-law contract staff performing equivalent-level functions.
Each candidate list for staff representatives must include numbers of women and men corresponding to their respective proportions among the represented workforce, assessed on 1 January of the election year; unions may round up or down where the result is not a whole number.