Adult-Relay Contract

Verified 31 August 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

Wondering what the Adult Relay contract is for and who can benefit from it?

This contract aims, in particular, to improve relations between residents of certain neighborhoods and public services.

The employee must be unemployed or have a job support contract. They must meet age and place of residence requirements.

The employer must be in the non-profit sector.

We're giving you the regulations to know.

This contract allows employers in the non-profit sector to hire people at least 26 years of age unemployed.

These persons carry out social mediation missions to improve:

  • Relations between residents of priority neighborhoods and public services
  • Social relations in public or collective spaces.

FYI  

The State shall pay annual aid of €22,555.73 to the company.

Employer

Adult-bridging contracts can be offered by the following employers:

  • Associations
  • Private companies responsible for the management of a public service.
  • Local and regional authorities (municipality, grouping of municipalities, department, region) and their public establishments
  • Public schools (kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school)
  • Hospitals
  • Public offices and low-cost housing organizations.

The employer is therefore active in the sector non-profit making.

Employee

To be in a relay adult contract, you must meet the following 3 conditions:

  • Have 26 years or older
  • Being unemployed or benefiting from CUI-CAE. If you are in CUI-CAE, you must break it to sign an adult-bridging contract
  • Reside in a city policy priority area or other city contract priority territory.

You can find out if you are in a priority area of the city's politics by consulting this website of the ministry in charge of the city.

Know which neighborhoods are the priority of city policy

Activities concerned

These social and cultural mediation missions consist of in particular to:

  • To welcome, listen to, exercise any activity that contributes to the social bond
  • Inform and accompany the inhabitants in their efforts
  • Facilitating dialog between public services and users (in particular between parents and services for their children)
  • Improve and preserve the living environment, facilitate dialog between generations, strengthen parental function
  • Assisting in the resolution of small conflicts of daily life through mediation and dialog
  • Facilitate intergenerational dialog, support and strengthen parental function by supporting initiatives taken by or in favor of parents
  • Strengthen community life, develop initiative and project capacity in the neighborhood and city.

Prohibited activities

Relay adults may not perform any function:

  • Relevant to the maintenance of public order
  • The sole purpose of which is to provide services in the homes of persons (childcare, help with homework, assistance in the home of an elderly person...).

Warning  

Employers entrusted with a public service may not hire adult staff for tasks falling within their normal activities (babysitting, technical maintenance, social assistance, etc.).

According to the employer, the adult-shift contract may take the form of:

Tableau - Nature of the adult-shift contract according to the employer

Employer concerned

Nature of the adult-relay contract

CSD

DTA

Combination

Yes

Yes

Business responsible for the management of a public service

Yes

Yes

Public school

Yes

No

Hospital

Yes

No

Office HLM

Yes

Yes

Public industrial and commercial establishment

Yes

Yes

Territorial community and its public institutions

Yes

No

Regardless of its nature (CDD or CDI), the adult-bridging contract may be concluded:

  • Full-time
  • Or part-time (at least half-time).

Warning  

Where the contract takes the form of a fixed-term contract, it shall have a trial period of one month. It is renewable once.

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CSD

The adult-bridging contract may be terminated each year on its anniversary date (date of signature):

Please note

An employee whose contract is terminated by his employer under these conditions shall receive compensation equal to 10% the remuneration received during the last 18 months of performance of his contract of employment.

Irrespective of this possibility, the adult-relay contract is subject to the usual rules of early termination of the CDD.

Thus, the contract may be terminated in the event of gross negligence, of force majeure or of incapacity ascertained by the occupational doctor.

It can also be broken at the employee's initiative, when the latter justifies the signature of a CDI.

DTA

An adult-relay contract in CDI can be terminated according to the same rules as a traditional DTA (pre-interview, notice).

The adult-bridging contract may be terminated each year on its anniversary date (date of signature):

An employee whose contract is terminated by his employer under these conditions shall receive compensation equal to 10% the remuneration received during the last 18 months of performance of his contract of employment.

FYI  

The employer who breaks the contract must notify breaking by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.

The mail must be sent after a period of 2 days following the date of the preliminary interview.

The date of submission of the letter shall be the starting point of the notice.

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