An employer may recruit temporary workers only for the performance of a precise and not permanent task.
Recourse to temporary workers must not pursue the aim of filling, on a continuing basis, a post linked to the normal and permanent activity of the undertaking.
Recourse to temporary workers is, in that regard, subject to the same rules as those applicable to fixed-term contracts.
It should be noted that infringement of the rules on recourse to temporary work is not penalised in the same way as in the case of fixed-term contracts.
Whereas non-compliance with rules on the use of fixed-term contracts is penalised by redeployment as a contract of indeterminate duration, non-compliance with the rules on recourse to temporary work is sanctioned by a fine under criminal law.