The temp agency market - France

Temping, also known as temporary work, involves hiring and paying employees for one-off, time-limited contracts, through temporary employment agencies. The employees are called temps, and the contracts are called missions. The temping market thus concerns temporary employment agencies (ETTs), which put temp workers in contact with user companies, i.e. companies that need temp workers for assignments.the temporary employment operation involves the conclusion of two contracts: the provision contract between the temporary employment agency and the user company, and the assignment contract between the employee and the temporary employment agency. During the assignment, the employee is legally attached to the temporary employment agency. On a global scale, the market is expected to experience sustained growth over the next few years, at a rate of 6% a year until 2030, to reach a market size of over $800 billion. The temping market is on the rise in France, after a significant downturn due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of temps varied marginally over the year. There were 772,463 temps on September 1, 2023 . The temping market is subject to occasional changes, brought about by changes in legislation. For example, in 2013, regulations changed to allow the generalization of the CDI intérimaire (permanent temporary employment contract). More recently, at the end of 2022, the maximum duration of an assignment (36 months) was abolished. The sectors that recruit the most temporary employees in France, and which have the best provisional results, are the tertiary (with catering, for example) and secondary (notably construction) sectors .