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This study aims to explain and analyze differences in employee status which includes contract employees and permanent employees on work discipline. Research conducted on company employees engaged in automotive assembly of two-wheeled vehicles in Cikarang, West Java, Indonesia. The method used in this study is a quantitative descriptive method of 157 employees and interviews with several respondents. The results of this study indicate that employee status affects employee work discipline. This is evidenced by the majority of employees (90%) have fewer absence rates when they become contract employees. And the majority of employees (84%) have better attendance at work when they are contract employees. This is caused by various factors, including having a sense of security because employees are already tied to the company, when they become contract employees have the motivation to be appointed as permanent employees, factors changing family status when they become contract employees and permanent employees, differences in healthy lifestyles such as nutritious dietary changes due to contract employees keep healthy so they can always be present and lack of discipline in employees because they have become permanent employees so that they still underestimate time.