A fixed-term contract is a contractual relationship between an employee and an employer that lasts for a specified period that is determined in advance.
In the European Union the incidence of fixed-term contracts ranges from 6% in the UK to 23% in Spain, with Germany, Italy and France between 13% and 16%.
Where employment legislation is less protective for the employee there tends to be a lesser degree of differentiation between fixed and permanent contracts.
[5] In Luxembourg, the standard maximum length of a contrat de travail à durée déterminée (CDD) is twenty-four months, with up to two renewals allowed.
Researchers and students can employed for a maximum of sixty months on a CDD, with no restriction as to the number of renewals allowed.