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.

Tableau - Maximum duration allowed for the CDD without a precise term

CSD Type

Maximum Duration

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End of absence of the superseded employee. The CSD can end until the day after the day the superseded employee resumes.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End of absence of the superseded employee. The CSD can end until the day after the day the superseded employee resumes.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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