Subsection 3: Succession of contracts.

When an assignment contract expires, neither a fixed-term contract nor an assignment contract may be used to fill the position of the employee whose contract has expired, before the expiry of a waiting period calculated on the basis of the duration of the assignment contract including, where applicable, its renewal(s). The days taken into account are the days on which the user company or establishment is open for business. Without…

In the absence of a stipulation in the branch agreement or agreement concluded pursuant toArticle L. 1251-36, this waiting period is equal to: 1° One third of the duration of the assignment contract that has expired if the duration of the contract, including, where applicable, its renewal(s), is fourteen days or more; 2° Half of the duration of the assignment contract that has expired if the duration of the contract,…

Without prejudice to the provisions ofarticle L. 1251-5, the agreement or the extended branch agreement of the user undertaking may stipulate the cases in which the waiting period provided for inarticle L. 1251-36 is not applicable.

In the absence of a stipulation in the agreement or industry-level agreement concluded pursuant toArticle L. 1251-37, the waiting period is not applicable: 1° When the assignment contract is concluded to ensure the replacement of an employee who is temporarily absent or whose employment contract has been suspended, in the event of a further absence of the replaced employee; 2° When the assignment contract is concluded to carry out urgent…