Section 1: Successive contracts with the same employee.

The provisions of article L. 1243-11 do not prevent the conclusion of successive fixed-term employment contracts with the same employee when the contract is concluded in one of the following cases: 1° Replacement of an absent employee ; 2° Replacement of an employee whose employment contract has been suspended; 3° Seasonal jobs as defined in 3° of article L. 1242-2 or for which, in certain sectors of activity defined by…

Seasonal employment contracts as defined in 3° of article L. 1242-2 may include a renewal clause for the following season. A collective labour agreement may stipulate that any employer who has employed an employee in a seasonal job must offer him a job of the same nature for the same season in the following year, unless there are real and serious grounds for not doing so. The agreement defines the…

In branches where seasonal employment is particularly widespread, as defined by an order of the Minister of Labour, in the absence of collective bargaining agreements at branch or company level, seasonal employment contracts in the same company are considered to be successive, for the purposes of applying article L. 1244-2, when they are concluded over one or more seasons, including when they have been interrupted by periods of no activity…

I. – In the branches referred to in Article L. 1244-2-1, in the absence of collective bargaining agreements at branch or company level, the employer shall inform the employee with a seasonal employment contract, by any means that can be relied upon to provide a definite date, of the conditions under which his contract may be renewed before it expires. II. – In the branches mentioned in article L. 1244-2-1,…