What is a CDD without a precise term?

In principle, employees working in CSD: titleContent must have an employment contract end date indicated on their contract.

However, the contract of employment of an employee on fixed-term contracts may not include precise term when it is concluded only in any of the following cases:

• The employee replaces an absent employee
• The employee replaces an employee whose employment contract is suspended
• The employee replaces an employee recruited in DTA: titleContent waiting for her arrival in the company
• In the case of the hiring of a seasonal employee in the case of a temporary increase in the activity of the company and without replacement of an absent employee (in the hotel sector or under a harvesting contract, for example)
• The employee replaces a manager of a craft, industrial or commercial company, a person engaged in a liberal activity or a manager of an agricultural holding
• For the anticipated recruitment of engineers or managers in the context of the implementation of a project defined by the employer (in the context of the collective agreement, of the extended branch agreement or the company collective agreement).

As a matter of principle, the duration of a CDD without a precise term is not fixed in advance on the date of conclusion of the employment contract between the employer and the employee.

However, the minimum duration of the fixed-term contract concluded between the employer and the employee may be determined by the employment contract.

In principle, a CDD without a precise term has no maximum duration.

The CDD without a specific term ends on the return of the replaced employee or once the object for which it has been concluded with the employer has been achieved.

However, the CDD without a precise term cannot be concluded for a period longer than 36 months.

A maximum duration is set according to the type of CDD without a precise term.