Fixed-term replacement contract with a childminder: calculating pay

What the replacement CDD must contain

• The reason (replacement of an absent employee) and the name of the person replaced.
• A precise end date or, failing that, a minimum duration, the CDD ending when the person replaced returns.
• The care schedule, the hourly rate (never below the minimum), the maintenance allowance and meal costs.
• End-of-CDD rights (paid leave, possible allowance) are checked on Service-Public and in the collective agreement.

CDD of less than one month: paid as worked

There is no monthly smoothing (mensualisation): the childminder is paid for the hours actually worked, at the contract's hourly rate. Paid leave earned is paid at the end of the contract with the last salary.

CDD from 1 to 12 months: smoothed over the CDD itself

• Only count the care weeks actually planned DURING the CDD (school and holiday weeks of care, without paid leave).
• Monthly hours = hours per week × care weeks of the CDD ÷ number of months of the CDD.
• Monthly salary = hourly rate × monthly hours, identical for each full month.
• Example of reasoning: a 4-month CDD with 15 planned care weeks is smoothed over those 15 weeks spread over 4 months — not over 47 or 52 weeks.

CDD of 12 months or more, and partial months

From 12 months, the CDD is smoothed like a CDI: année complète if the child is cared for all year round, année incomplète otherwise.

The first and last months are rarely complete: the monthly salary is then reduced by the planned hours falling before the start date or after the end date, instead of paying a full month.

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