Fixed Term Contract

Fixed Term Contract is defined by the Fixed-Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 as a contract of employment that will terminate:

a) on the expiry of a specific term (for example, after 6 months or on 25 June 2007)

b) on the completion of a particular task (for example, when project X is complete)

c) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of any other specific event other than retirement.

Fixed term employees are employees employed on a fixed term contract. Such employees are protected from less favourable treatment on the ground that they are fixed term employees.

Non renewal of a fixed term contract is a dismissal.