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In a ruling handed down on 17 April, the Court of Cassation (Hight Court) confirmed an earlier ruling handed down by the Versailles Appeals Court on 14 March 2017 (see article n°10128), which said that a trade union does not have the right to terminate the EWC mandate of a representative who switches union membership before this mandate has come to an end. The case relates to incident where one trade union appointed two new representatives to an EWC to replace two others that has left the union to join another and be elected as part of their new union. The judges from the high instance court said that under the agreement for establishing the EWC (at French insurance group Axa), a representative's mandate only comes to an end early if they lose their original mandate for representation within the company, which was not the case for the two representatives in question, who had a mandate as part of their new union. The Court of Cassation said: "The appeal court rightly decided that the mandate of member of the Axa Group's EWC is not that of a trade union representative, as such the change of trade union of an elected staff representative [...] does not allow a trade union to terminate their mandate." Access the ruling here: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichJuriJudi.do?oldAction=rechJuriJudi&idTexte=JURITEXT000038427360&fastReqId=1774150096&fastPos=1
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