The first sets up a jointly-managed association to fund social dialogue in the information technology, engineering and consulting sector. The second implements a system of company funding of unions represented at the Renault motor manufacturing group, based on works council election results. The issue of trade union funding is a subject of debate in France. The topic is linked to the low level of funding raised through membership contributions. Union membership dues alone are not sufficient to fund union operations.
All unions have supplementary sources of income, either from companies or the government.
This regularly fuels allegations of fraudulent use of indirect revenue. A recent administrative inspection laid bare the indirect union funding practices of jointly-managed social security and welfare agencies. According to the Court of Auditors, there is little legal basis for this policy of secondment. The IGAS revelations have helped bolster suspicions over the possible inappropriate use of the whole jointly-managed social security system by unions and employers' associations. Both unions and employers' associations were quick to take action to counter these accusations.