The social partners signed the Collective Convention (national level) on the Model of the Continuing Vocational Training Contract

At the meeting of the National Commission for Consultation and Collective Bargaining of 31 July 2018, the social partners (Government, Employers and Trade unions) signed the Collective Convention (national level) on the Model of the Continuing Vocational Training Contract.

This Convention completes the normative framework regulating the relations between the employee and the employer, which are established in the process of professional training of the employees.

The Labour Code provides the employee with the right to vocational training, including the acquisition of a new profession or specialty. This right can be achieved through the conclusion, in written form, of professional training contracts, additional to the individual labour contract.

On the other hand, the employer is obliged to create the necessary conditions and to favour the vocational and technical training of the employees who follow the training in production, improve or study in educational institutions, without leaving the activity.

In order to achieve these rights and obligations, by art. 216, par. (3) and (4) of the Labour Code, the employer is given the right to conclude a continuous professional training contract with any employee of the unit. The Continuing Vocational Training Contract is concluded in written form, it is an addendum to the individual labour contract and it is regulated by labour law and other normative acts that contain norms of the labour law.

According to art. 217 of the Labour Code a continuous professional training contract should contain:

1. a) the surname and given name of the parties;
2. b) indication of the profession, specialty and qualification that the employee will obtain;
3. c) obligations of the employer to create the training conditions stipulated in the contract;
4. d) the term of the contract;
5. e) the obligation of the person to attend the training course and to activate according to the profession, the specialty, the qualification obtained within the term stipulated by the respective contract;
6. f) conditions for remuneration of work during the continuous professional training.
7. g) the conditions for covering (reimbursement) of the expenses incurred by the parties (one part) during the continuous professional training in the case of the employee’s discharge before the expiry of the term stipulated in the contract.

These provisions have been broadened and included as clauses of the model of the Continuing Vocational Training Contract approved by the convention.

We consider that the Collective Convention (national level) on the model of the Continuing Vocational Training Contract will be useful to employers and employees wishing to conclude vocational training contracts and will ensure the correct and uniform application of the provisions of the Labour Code regarding the conclusion of the contracts in question.

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