Section 2: Conditions of appeal

An assignment contract, regardless of the reason for it, may not have the purpose or effect of permanently filling a job linked to the normal and permanent activity of the user company.

Subject to the provisions of Article L. 1251-7, a temporary employee may only be used to perform a specific and temporary task known as an “assignment” and only in the following cases: 1° Replacement of an employee, in the event of : a) Absence ; b) A temporary change to part-time work, agreed by amendment to the employee’s contract of employment or by written agreement between the employee and his…

In addition to the cases provided for in article L. 1251-6, a temporary employee may be made available to a user undertaking: 1° When the temporary work assignment aims, in application of legal provisions or an extended branch agreement, to promote the recruitment of unemployed people experiencing particular social and professional difficulties; 2° When the temporary employment undertaking and the user undertaking undertake, for a period and under conditions laid…

Where the assignment involves the practice of a regulated medical or paramedical profession, the temporary employment agency will check that the employee is duly authorised to practise.