Part-time work contract

The French Chairman Nicolas Sarkozy announced at the beginning of December that the firms of less than 10 paid would be exonerated from the totality of the employer costs for the recruitings of employees carried out in 2009 provided that the versed wages are not higher than 1,6 times the , that is to say 2113,67 € rough per month, on the basis 35 hours. If no agreement were found with managements and labor before December 31st, 2008, the Government will work on a bill at the beginning of 2009 in order to set up this measurement.

In order to strengthen the fight against the exclusion of the people meeting of the social difficulties and professional specific, and to standardize the operative paragraphs facilitating their return to employment, a single contract of insertion will be created by 2010. Currently, there exist 4 helped contracts: the Co, the , and for the recipients of the social minimums, the and the contract with a future. From now on, with the single contract, the rules making it possible to determine the eligible public with the operative paragraphs of insertion will be standardized. Also, the employers will have more means to guarantee the of the accompanying measures social and professional.

The with definite purpose was created by the law carrying modernization of the job market of June 25th on an experimental basis for a 5 years period as from the publication of this law. The term of this specific limited time contract must be ranging between 18 and nths. This can be broken, by one or the other party for a real and serious reason. When the contract expires and that the relations do not continue with a TDCI or when this rupture intervenes on the initiative of the employer, the employee is entitled to an allowance equal to 10% of the rough total compensation of the employee. The law founding this remains however quiet on the social regime of the allowance. The has just confirmed that this allowance is forwarded entirely to the contributions of social security, like to the and with the , in the same way as the FIXED-TERM CONTRACT “ordinary”.