permanent contract
Job without expiration
A permanent contract is an employment agreement with no predetermined end date, as opposed to fixed-term or temporary contracts.
The employee remains employed indefinitely until they resign or are terminated.
After two years on temporary contracts, she was finally offered a permanent contract.
The term is more common in British English; Americans often say permanent position.
- tenureProtected employment status
- indefiniteNot precisely determined
- stableSecure and unchanging
- job securityProtected employment status
- securityProtection from threat
fulltime · full time · nine to five · employee · benefits · paid leave · salary · steady paycheck · pension · hired · steady · lifelong · salaried · fixed term · long term · career · workplace · payroll
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Independent, temporary task employment
at-will employment · freelance work · casual employment · day labor · on-call work
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Self-employed project work
self-employment · independent contractor · side hustle · odd jobs
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