Multi-replacement fixed-term contracts

Multi-replacement fixed-term contracts: a new possibility for some companies

Law No. 2022-1598 of 21 December 2022, known as the Labour Market Law, reactivates the experiment allowing employers in certain sectors to conclude a single fixed-term contract (“CDD”) or temporary employment contract (“CTT") to replace one or more absent employees, either simultaneously or successively.

For the record, the Professional Future Act of 5 September 2018 had already opened up this possibility, on an experimental basis, between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2020.

This measure was taken in order to limit the volume of short contracts signed by companies. In principle, only one contract may be concluded for the replacement of a single employee.

As decree no. 2023-263 of 12 April 2023 was published in the Official Journal the following day, the experiment will apply from 13 April 2023 until 13 April 2025, i.e., for a period of 2 years. The list of sectors and collective agreements concerned has been extended to opening up this experiment to 66 Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) in total.

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Sectors	IDDC number
CBA of private hospitalization (IDCC 2264) merged with the CBA of thermalism (IDCC 2104)	IDCC 2264
CBA of medico-social establishments of the inter-union union of health and social sectors	IDCC 0405
CBA of private non-profit hospitalization, care, cure and on-call institutions	IDCC 0029
CBA of work in establishments and services for the maladjusted and disabled (IDCC 0413), merged with the national collective agreement for qualified medical specialists with regard to the professional board working in institutions and services for maladjusted and disabled persons (IDCC 1001) and the CBA for residential and social rehabilitation centers (IDCC 783)	IDCC 0413
CBA of Cancer Centers	IDCC 2046
CBA Red Cross	IDCC 5502
CBA of cleaning companies and associated services	IDCC 3043
CBA of the mutuality	IDCC 2128
CBA for education, culture, leisure and animation professions acting for social and environmental utility, at the service of the territories	IDCC 1518
CBA of sport	IDCC 2511
CBA of the branch of assistance, accompaniment, care and services at home	IDCC 2941
CBA of actors of social and family ties: social and sociocultural centers, childcare associations, local social development associations	IDCC 1261
CBA for Social and Family Tourism	IDCC 1316
Private and public broadcasting undertakings: Broadcasting CBA and Broadcasting Sector Negotiation Perimeter as provided for in the February 1, 2019, Method Agreement on the Negotiation for the Implementation of an CBA for Private and Public Broadcasting Undertakings	IDCC 1922
CBA of Journalists	IDCC 1480
CBA for Supported Housing and Housing	IDCC 2336
CBA ski lifts and ski areas	IDCC 454
CBA of retail and wholesale food	IDCC 2216
CBA Non-Specialized Food Retail	IDCC 1505
CBA of the specialized food retail trade	IDCC 3237
CBA of Plastics processes	IDCC 0292
CBA of staff of catering companies	IDCC 1266
CBA for the trade in sporting goods and leisure equipment (IDCC 1557), merged with the CBA of camping (IDCC 1618)	IDCC 1557
CBA for Road Transport and Auxiliary Transportation Activities	IDCC 16
CBA of Dairy	IDCC 112
departmental CBA of sugar mills and sugar distilleries of Réunion	IDCC 440
CBA bakery and pastry shop	IDCC 843
departmental CBA association of bakery workers of Martinique	IDCC 901
CBA of Pastry	IDCC 1267
CBA of retailers, retailers-manufacturers and artisans of confectionery, chocolate, biscuits	IDCC 1286
Departmental CBA of agri-food industries of Réunion	IDCC 1341
CBA of Processed Food Industries	IDCC 1396
CBA of bottled water, soft drinks and beer production operations	IDCC 1513
CBA of meat industry and wholesalers	IDCC 1534
CBA of the Salting, Wholesale and Canned Meat Industry (IDCC 1586), merged with the National Gut Collective Agreement (IDCC 1543)	IDCC 1586
departmental CBA of sugar factories, sugar distilleries and distilleries of Guadeloupe	IDCC 1700
CBA of Bakery and Pastry Industrial Activities (IDCC 1747), merged with the CBA of Registered Egg Packing, Marketing and Processing Centers and Egg Products Industries (IDCC No. 2075)	IDCC 1747
CBA for grain processing trades, formerly milling	IDCC 1930
CBA of Poultry Processing Industries	IDCC 1938
CBA of dry pasta and unprepared couscous	IDCC 1987
Regional CBA of the bakery and pastry shop of French Guiana	IDCC 2250
CBA of sugar refineries, sugar distilleries and sugar refineries	IDCC 2728
CBA of the 5 branches miscellaneous food industries	IDCC 3109
CBA of cooperatives and SICA for the production, processing and sale of livestock and meat	IDCC 7001
Collective Agreement for Grain, Milling, Supply, Feed and Oilseed Agricultural Cooperatives	IDCC 7002
CBA of cooperative canneries and SICA	IDCC 7003
CBA of dairy cooperatives	IDCC 7004
CBA of cooperative cellars and their unions extended to SICA wineries	IDCC 7005
CBA of work concerning agricultural cooperatives, unions of agricultural cooperatives and SICA of flowers, fruits and vegetables and potatoes	IDCC 7006
CBA of agricultural flax scutching cooperatives	IDCC 7007
CBA concerning the staff of milk recording agencies	IDCC 7008
CBA of animal breeding and breeding companies	IDCC 7021
CBA of agricultural dewatering enterprises	IDCC 7023
Regional CBA of fruit cooperatives Ain Doubs Jura	IDCC 8435
CBA of personal service companies	IDCC 3127
Unions for the management of health and medico-social establishments of health insurance funds, set up in accordance with Articles L.216-1 to L.216-3 of the Social Security Code and covered by the national collective labour agreement for the staff of social security bodies	IDCC 2018
CBA of Non-Food Retail	IDCC 1517
CBA of Clothing Retail Chain Houses	IDCC 0675
CBA of Department Stores and Popular Stores	IDCC 2156
CBA of the Footwear Succursalist Trade	IDCC 468
CBA of the wholesale of clothing, haberdashery, footwear and toys	IDCC 500
CBA of Clothing and textile articles retail trade	IDCC1483
CBA of aesthetics-cosmetics and technical and professional education related to the aesthetics and perfumery professions	IDCC 3032
CBA of the mechanical glass manufacturing industries	IDCC 0669
CBA for the production and transformation of paper and paperboard	IDCC 3238
CBA of the personnel of service providers in the tertiary sector	IDCC 2098

At the same time, the Ministry of Labour has published 27 Questions and Answers in order to provide clarification.

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