Section 1: General provisions.

The employment contract is subject to the rules of ordinary law. It may be drawn up in the form that the contracting parties decide to adopt.

An employment contract of indefinite duration is the normal and general form of employment relationship. However, an employment contract may include a term fixed with precision at the time of its conclusion or resulting from the achievement of the purpose for which it is concluded in the cases and under the conditions mentioned in Title IV relating to fixed-term employment contracts.

The written employment contract shall be drawn up in French. When the job that is the subject of the contract can only be designated by a foreign term with no French equivalent, the employment contract shall include an explanation of the foreign term in French. Where the employee is a foreigner and the contract is in writing, a translation of the contract is drawn up, at the employee’s request, in…

As electronic reverse auctions are forbidden in matters of salary setting, any employment contract stipulating a salary set as a result of such a procedure is automatically null and void.

Any jurisdiction clause included in an employment contract is null and void.

The employer shall provide the employee with one or more written documents containing the main information relating to the employment relationship. An employee who has not received the information referred to in the first paragraph may only apply to the competent court to obtain this information after giving formal notice to his employer to provide him with the required documents or, where applicable, to supplement the documents provided. A decree…