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Employment contract
Definition
An employment contract exists as soon as a person (the employee) undertakes to work, in return for compensation, for and under the orders and control of another person (the employer) in a private company. Most often, the employment contract must be written, with the exception of full-time open-ended contracts. Its execution requires a certain number of obligations, for both the employee and the employer.
The employer may be a natural person (individual entrepreneur, etc.) or a corporate body (SARL, association, etc.) governed by private law. In this latter case, the contract is signed by the person who has the power to engage the legal entity: manager, director whose functions include the hiring of employees, etc. As for the employee, any person may sign an employment contract with, however, some restrictions concerning adult persons under guardianship and young people under the age of 18.
