Subsection 3: Employment contract.

Any contract by which a person secures the services of a model in return for remuneration is presumed to be a contract of employment.

The presumption of the existence of a contract of employment subsists regardless of the method and amount of remuneration and the classification given to the contract by the parties. Nor is it destroyed by proof that the model retains complete freedom of action in the performance of her presentation work.

The presumption of salaried employment provided for in articles L. 7123-3 and L. 7123-4 does not apply to models who are recognised as service providers established in a Member State of the European Union or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, where they usually provide similar services, and who come to carry out their activity in France, through the provision of services, on a…

Any contract of employment concluded between a modelling agency and each of the models it employs shall be drawn up in writing and shall include a precise definition of its purpose.