Adult Relay Contract

Verified 16 October 2026 - Public Service / (Prime Minister)

Wondering what the adult-relay contract allows? The candidate for this contract must in particular be unemployed or benefit from an employment support contract (CUI-CAE). They must also fulfill conditions related to age and place of residence. The employer must practice in the non-profit sector. We present you the regulations to know.

Please note

The adult-relay contract allows the employer to receive a financial assistance from the State.

Employer

The following employers may enter into an adult bridge contract:

  • Associations
  • Private companies in charge of the management of a public service
  • Local authorities (commune, grouping of communes, department, region) and their public institutions
  • Public schools (kindergarten, primary school, middle school, high school)
  • Hospitals
  • Public offices and HLM organizations.

The employer therefore practices in the sector non-profit.

Employee

To be in an adult-relay contract, the candidate must meet the following 3 conditions:

  • Credit Memo 26 years of age or older
  • Being unemployed or benefit from a CUI-CAE. If he is in CUI-CAE, he must break it to sign an adult-relay contract.
  • Reside in a priority area of city policy or in another priority area of city contracts.

It is possible to know if you live in a priority neighborhood of the city's politics by consulting this site:

Know which neighborhoods are the priority of city policy

Activities concerned

These are social and cultural mediation missions. They consist of in particular à :

  • To welcome, listen to and carry out any activity that contributes to social ties
  • Inform and accompany the inhabitants in their efforts
  • Facilitate dialog between public services and users (in particular between parents and services for their children)
  • Improving and preserving the living environment, facilitating dialog between generations, strengthening parental function
  • Helping to resolve small conflicts in everyday life through mediation and dialog
  • Facilitate intergenerational dialog, support and strengthen parenting by supporting initiatives taken by or on behalf of parents
  • Strengthen community life, develop initiative and project capacity in the neighborhood and the city.

Prohibited Activities

Relay adults cannot not :

  • Perform an act relating to the maintenance of public order
  • Be employed in functions whose sole purpose is to provide services to the homes of persons (childcare, assistance with homework, assistance at home of an elderly person...).)

Warning  

Employers in charge of a public service (examples: public housing, planning and construction offices) may not hire adult relays for tasks falling within their normal activities (babysitting, technical maintenance, social assistance...).)

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

Tableau - Nature (CDD or CDI) of the adult-relay contract according to the employer

Employer concerned

Nature of the adult-relay contract

CDD

CDI

Association

Yes

Yes

Business in charge of the management of a public service

Yes

Yes

Public school

Yes

No

Hospital

Yes

No

Office HLM

Yes

Yes

Public institution of industrial and commercial nature

Yes

Yes

Territorial authority and its public institutions

Yes

No

Whatever its nature (CDD or CDI), the adult-relay contract can be concluded:

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

Warning  

When it takes the form of a CDD, the contract includes a trial period of a month. It is renewable 1 time.

Some terms of termination of this contract are specific to the adult-relay contract, others are classic.

Break rules specific to the adult-relay contract

The adult-relay contract may be broken every year on its anniversary date (date of signature):

Classic Break Rules

The rules differ depending on the type of contract:

CDD

The adult-relay contract in CDD is subject to the usual rules of early termination.

Thus, it can be broken in case:

  • From gross misconduct
  • From force majeure
  • Or incapacity noted by the occupational physician.

It can also be terminated at the initiative of the employee if he has followed a CDI.

FYI  

If the employer does not comply with the CDD termination rules, it must pay damages and interest to the employee.

CDI

An adult-relay contract CDI can be broken according to same rules as a classic CDI (prior interview, notice).

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