What is a CDD without a precise term?
Verified 30 September 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You can be hired in CSD: titleContent without a specific term, i.e. without an end date set after your initial CDD, under certain conditions. We'll explain the rules.
Your CSD may not include a specific term when it is entered into in any of the following cases:
- You are replacing an absent employee
- You are replacing an employee whose employment contract is suspended
- You are replacing a pending employee recruited in DTA: titleContent
- You are hired as a seasonal employee
- You are replacing an artisanal, industrial or commercial company manager or a person engaged in a liberal activity
- You're replacing a farm manager
Your non-term fixed term is concluded for a minimum period.
Your fixed term will end when the employee you are replacing returns or at the end of the object for which it was concluded with your employer.
CSD Type | Maximum Duration |
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Contract of employment concluded in place of an employee absent or whose contract of employment is suspended | End of absence of the superseded employee. The CSD can end until the day after the day the superseded employee resumes. |
Contract of employment concluded in place of a head of craft, industrial or commercial company or a person engaged in a liberal activity | End of absence of the superseded employee. The CSD can end until the day after the day the superseded employee resumes. |
Contract concluded while awaiting an employee recruited on a permanent contract | 9 months |
Contract concluded in the context of a seasonal employment | End of season |
Contract executed abroad | Fulfillment of the subject matter of the contract and within the limit of 24 months |
Contract concluded in the context of employment for which it is not customary to have recourse to the CDI | Fulfillment of the subject matter of the contract and within the limit of 24 months |
Warning
a CDD without a specific term cannot be renewed.
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- Labor Code: Articles L1242-7 to L1242-9Fixing the term and duration of the contract
- Labor Code: Articles L1242-12 to L1242-13Form, content and transmission of the contract
- Labor Code: Articles L1243-5 to L1243-12Term of the contract and continuation after expiry
- Labor Code: Article L1243-13Renewal of the contract
- Conclusion of fixed-term employment contract (fixed-term contract)Service-Public.fr
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- The fixed-term contract (CDD)Ministry of Labor