#ARMH2612218AUnified Consultative Committee for Defense Ministry Contract Staff
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This order creates a unified staff consultation committee for contract employees of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans, including contract staff working in listed public institutions such as military schools, museums, and defense-related agencies. It sets the committee’s structure, election rules, membership, gender representation requirements, and operating procedures. For HR teams, unions, and contract staff, the practical change is a clearer framework for representation and consultation. The committee must be consulted on key individual decisions, including dismissals, major disciplinary sanctions, certain contract non-renewals, refusals of training or telework requests, and disputes linked to part-time work or professional evaluations.
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Key Changes
- Creates a unified consultative committee for contract staff of the defense and veterans ministry and listed public institutions.
- Sets two staff colleges, each with five staff representatives and five administration representatives, plus substitutes.
- Requires consultation on dismissals, major disciplinary sanctions, certain contract non-renewals, training refusals, telework refusals, and other individual employment matters.
Obligations
What this law requires
The Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans must establish and maintain a unified joint consultative committee for contract agents of the ministry and the listed public institutions, with two electoral colleges covering the specified categories of contract staff.
The committee must include, for each of the two colleges, 5 full staff representatives, 5 substitute staff representatives, 5 full administration representatives, and 5 substitute administration representatives.
The electoral roll must be displayed at least one month before the election date; electors then have 8 days to verify entries and request registration, and complaints about inclusions or omissions may be made during that period and for 3 additional days.
Voting for staff representatives must be conducted electronically, and voters may vote only for a complete list without deleting, adding, or reordering candidate names; ballots that breach these rules must be treated as void.
Administration representatives to the committee must be appointed by order of the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans within 15 days after proclamation of election results, and the administration must ensure at least 40% representation of each sex across full and substitute administration representatives.