France

"Art 2232-12: The validity of a company or establishment agreement is subject to its signature by, on the one hand, the employer or his representative and, on the other hand, one or more representative employee trade union organizations having collected more than 50% of the votes cast in favor of representative organizations in the first round of the last elections of the incumbents to the social and economic committee, regardless of the number of voters. If this condition is not met and if the agreement has been signed by both the employer and by representative trade union organisations that have received more than 30% of the votes cast in favour of representative organisations in the first round of the elections referred to in the first paragraph, regardless of the number of voters, one or more of these organisations that have received more than 30% of the votes shall have a period of one month from the signing of the agreement to indicate that they wish to consult employees in order to validate the agreement. At the end of this period, the employer may request that this consultation be organised, in the absence of opposition from all of these organisations. If, after a period of eight days from this request or the employer's initiative, the possible signatures of other representative trade union organisations have not made it possible to reach the 50% rate mentioned in the first paragraph and if the conditions mentioned in the second paragraph are still met, this consultation shall be organised within a period of two months. The consultation of employees, which may be organised electronically, shall take place in compliance with the general principles of electoral law and in accordance with the procedures provided for in a specific protocol concluded between the employer and one or more representative trade union organisations having received more than 30% of the votes cast in favour of representative organisations in the first round of the elections mentioned in the first paragraph, regardless of the number of voters. The employees of the establishments covered by the agreement and voters within the meaning of Articles L. 2314-15 and L. 2314-17 to L. 2314-18-1 participate in the consultation. The agreement is valid if it is approved by the employees by a majority of the votes cast. In the absence of approval, the agreement is deemed unwritten. A decree defines the conditions for the employee consultation organized in application of this article"

"Article 1242-6: In addition to the cases provided for in Article L. 1242-5, it is prohibited to conclude a fixed-term employment contract: 1° To replace an employee whose employment contract is suspended following a collective labor dispute; 2° To carry out certain particularly dangerous work appearing on a list established by regulation, under the conditions provided for in Article L. 4154-1. The administrative authority may exceptionally authorize an exemption from this prohibition under conditions determined by regulation."