Employment Agreements: A Comprehensive Guide to Contracts
Understanding Employment Contracts
An employment contract is an agreement where an individual performs services in exchange for remuneration.
Key Elements
- Worker: The individual who provides services under contract for a wage.
- Entrepreneur: The person or entity receiving the worker’s services.
Form of Employment Contract
The employment contract can be written or oral. Most contracts are written, including:
- Regular and permanent contracts
- Eventual contracts for production reasons
- Full-time contracts
Trial Period
The trial period is a written agreement between employer and employee, specifying a time frame to evaluate work activity in exchange for a wage. The duration is:
- 6 months for technical graduates
- 2 months for other workers
- Up to 3 months for companies with fewer than 25 workers
Hiring Arrangements
Common Indefinite Contract (Regular)
- Duration: Long-term employment.
- Form: Written or oral.
- Requirements: No specific requirements for workers or firms.
- Incentives: No specific incentives for employers.
- Day: Full or partial.
- Rules: Governed by the Workers’ Statute.
Contract Work for Promotion of Permanent Contracts
- Unemployed youth aged 16-30
- Long-term unemployed (at least 6 months registered as job seekers)
- Unemployed individuals over 45
- Unemployed individuals with disabilities
- Women recruited for professions with low rates of permanent employment
Fixed Discontinuous Contract
This contract is used for jobs that are fixed-discontinuous and occur repeatedly on certain dates within the normal business activity.
Contract Practices
This contract facilitates professional practice appropriate to the worker’s education level (university degree, medium or higher-grade professional training). The worker must possess a relevant qualification.
Common Indefinite Contract (Regular)
- Duration: Long-term employment.
- Forms: Written or oral.
- Requirements: No specific requirements for workers or firms.
- Incentives: No right to any incentive for employers.
- Day: Full or partial.
- Rules: Governed by the provisions of the Workers’ Statute.
Contract Work for the Promotion of Permanent Contracts
- Unemployed youth aged between 16 and 30
- Including long-term unemployed who obtained at least 6 months registered as job seekers
- Over 45 unemployed
- Unemployed handicapped
- Women recruited for a profession with low rates of permanent employment.
Fixed contract discontinuous discontinuous fixed contract is a contract that is entered in jobs that have the character of fixed-discontinuous and are not repeated in certain dates within the normal volume of business activity.
Contract Practices
This contract has intended to facilitate the obtaining of professional practice appropriate to the level of school completed by workers with a university degree or training professional medium or higher grade workers. Therefore has to have a qualification as a university degree or diploma, or techniques regulated higher professional education.