The training and apprenticeship contracts, developed in Royal Decree Law 3/2012 of February 10, is aimed at the professional qualification of workers in a regime of alternating paid work activity in a company with training activity received within the framework of the vocational training system for employment or the educational system. In this way, the worker receives theoretical training during the validity of the training contract.
How are they, requirements, duration and working hours ...
Requirements if you are looking for a training contract
- The contract for training and apprenticeship may be entered into with workers over 16 and under 25 years of age. As exceptional cases, training contracts may be made with workers under the age of 30, until the unemployment rate falls below 15%.
- You must be registered as a job seeker at the SEPE office.
- You must have the professional qualification obtained by the vocational training system for employment or the educational system. However, this contract may be concluded with people who have a degree, as long as the professional qualification under which it is contracted is different from the degree.
- The maximum age limit will not apply when the contract is concluded with the disabled and with socially excluded groups.
Day and duration of the training contract
- The minimum duration of the contract is one year and you can stay for a maximum of three years. However, by means of a collective agreement, a different duration of the contract may be established, without which the minimum duration may be less than six months nor the maximum greater than three years.
- The contract may be extended by agreement of the parties, up to a maximum of two times, without the duration of each extension being less than 6 months or more than 3 years.
- The effective working time may not exceed 75% during the first year, or 85% during the second and third year, of the maximum working day provided for in the collective agreement.
- The situation of temporary disability due to risk during pregnancy, maternity, adoption or foster care, risk during breastfeeding and paternity will interrupt the calculation of the duration of the contract, except as established in art. 25.1 of law 56/2003.
These types of contracts usually have a series of advantages both for the company that hires and for the worker. Let's talk below about the advantages of the latter, the workers:
- Reduction of 100% of the contributions to the Social Security Benefit and unemployment subsidy.
- Training conducive to obtaining a Certificate of Professionalism.
- Job placement and professional training for young people without experience and without qualifications.
- Possibility of hiring up to three years.