Fixed-term contract for senior citizens (senior fixed-term contract)

Verified 07 June 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

You wonder what a fixed-term contract (fixed-term contract) is senior ?

This contract aims to facilitate the return to employment of older employees and to enable them to acquire additional rights for the liquidation of their pension. Thus, the duration of this contract may be different from a conventional CDD.

In addition, the employer is not obliged to invoke a traditional ground for recourse to the fixed-term contract, such as the temporary increase in activity.

We're doing an update on the regulations.

General case

Any employer of the private sector may conclude a CSD senior.

The employer is not obliged to put forward one of the legal grounds to use this contract.

He may use that contract for a job connected with the company's normal and permanent activity.

To acquire additional rights for the purpose of liquidation of their pension at full rate, the senior CDD is open to you if you meet the following 2 conditions:

The duration of the CSD senior is not more than 18 months.

The contract may be renewed one up to 36 months (including the duration of the initial contract).

The fixed-term contract shall senior obeys the rules of a traditional fixed-term contract (fixed-term contract). In particular:

Agricultural sector

Any employer may enter into a fixed-term contract senior.

But there are two exceptions. The following employers cannot enter into a senior CSD:

  • Teachers in private agricultural establishments and vocational training
  • Administrators of mutual associations (e.g. non-profit insurance) receiving an official allowance and not necessarily covered by a social security scheme

The employer is not obliged to put forward one of the legal grounds to use this contract.

He may use that contract for a job connected with the company's normal and permanent activity.

You are concerned if you are jobseeker justifying a lack of 8 contribution quarters, all schemes, to benefit from a full rate pension.

The duration of the CSD senior is Maximum 24 months.

The contract cannot be renewed.

The fixed-term contract shall senior obeys the rules of a traditional fixed-term contract (fixed-term contract). In particular: