SECTION 25

(1) A contract of employment may be concluded for a specified or unspecified duration. • (a) A contract of specified duration is a contract whose termination is fixed in advance by both parties. It may not concluded for a duration of more than (2) two years renewable once. The following shall be considered contracts of employment of a specified but non-renewable period : o - a contract whose termination is subject to the occurence, which does not depend exclusively on the will of the parties, of a future but certain event that is precisely indicated; o - a contract concluded for the execution of a specified task. • (b) A contract of an unspecified period is a contract whose termination is not fixed in advance and may be terminated at any time by the will of the worker or the employer, provided that the prior notice referred to in Section 34 below is given. (2) The contract of foreign workers shall be renewed only after endorsement by the minister in charge of labour. (3) Contracts of specified duration of Cameroonian workers shall be renewed only once with the same company. At the expiry of such renewal, if working relations continue, the contract shall be transformed into one of unspecified duration. (4) The above provisions shall not apply to workers recruited to carry out exclusively : • (a) a temporary job in replacement of an absent worker or one whose contract has been suspended, or the completion of a piece of work within a specific timelimit and requiring additional manpower. • (b) an occasional job aimed at coping with unexpected growth in the activities of the company as a result of certain economic conditions or entailing urgent works to prevent imminent accidents, organizing emergency measures or repairing company equipment, facilities or buildings which are dangerous for the workers ; • (c) a seasonal job generated by the cyclical or climatic nature of company activities. (5) The employment conditions of the workers referred to in preceding paragraph shall be laid down by decree issued after consultation with the National Labour Advisory Board.