Staff representatives.

Summary There are more than half a million employee representatives in France, including those elected to the works council, the CHSCT and the trade union. While we readily point to a lack of social dialogue in this country, we may be surprised at the lack of studies devoted to its main players. What do we know about the motivations, the work done to inform and defend other employees, or the career development of employee representatives? How are they perceived by their colleagues and their employers? Are they discriminated against? Based on very rich but rarely used statistical sources, this book provides for the first time an overview of the activity of employee representatives. It shows that the legal framework in which they operate is inadequate and too often tends to set representatives, employees and employers against each other, and proposes solutions to ensure that employees' interests are better represented, without fear, during negotiations as well as in the daily life of companies.