Art. 2746. Limited duration of contract.

SECTION 1–OF THE HIRING OF SERVANTS AND LABORERS Art. 2746. Limited duration of contract. A man can only hire out his services for a certain limited time, or for the performance of a certain enterprise.

Art. 2747. Contract of servant terminable at will of parties.

Art. 2747. Contract of servant terminable at will of parties. A man is at liberty to dismiss a hired servant attached to his person or family, without assigning any reason for so doing. The servant is also free to depart without assigning any cause.

Art. 2748. Contract of farm or factory laborer, restrictions on termination.

Art. 2748. Contract of farm or factory laborer, restrictions on termination. Laborers, who hire themselves out to serve on plantations or to work in manufactures, have not the right of leaving the person who has hired them, nor can they be sent away by the proprietor, until the time has expired during which they had […]

Art. 2749. Liability for dismissal of laborer without cause.

Art. 2749. Liability for dismissal of laborer without cause. If, without any serious ground of complaint, a man should send away a laborer whose services he has hired for a certain time,*before that time has expired, he shall be bound to pay to such laborer the whole of the salaries which he would have been […]

Art. 2750. Liability of laborer leaving employment without cause.

Art. 2750. Liability of laborer leaving employment without cause. But if, on the other hand, a laborer, after having hired out his services, should leave his employer before the time of his engagement has expired, without having any just cause of complaint against his employer, the laborer shall then forfeit all the wages that may […]