1. What is the training contract?
The Contract for Training and Learning aims at professional qualification of the working people in a regime of alternating paid work activity in a company, received training activity under the vocational training system of education.
2. What are the requirements to benefit from training contracts?
THE WORKERS:
- They must be over 16 and under 30 years.
- They must lack the professional qualification recognized by the vocational training system or the education system required to arrange an internship.
- Have an obligation to provide effective work.
- They must effectively participate in related training activities.
THE COMPANY:
- Must simultaneously subscribe to the contract terms with the training center to impart training.
- Is required to provide effective work related to the professional profile of vocational qualification or professional certificate.
- It must guarantee the conditions that allow the worker to its assistance to certain training programs in the training activity according to the annex to the contract.
- No may impose a probationary period to exceed two months worker.
3. How is the effective working time and compensation established?
WORKING TIME:
- It must be compatible with the time devoted to training activities.
- It can not exceed 75% during the first year or 85% in the second and third years of the maximum working day established in the collective agreement or, failing that, to the maximum legal workday.
RETRIBUTION:
- The remuneration is to be fixed in proportion to the actual working time, in accordance with the provisions of the collective agreement.
- In any case, such compensation may be below the minimum wage in proportion to the actual working time..
4. What is the duration of the Contract Training?
- The Minimum contract period is one year and the maximum is three years.
5. What is the role of Social Security in training contracts?
- The protective action of the Social Security worker hired for the training covers all contingencies ,so he is protected in all situations and benefits, including unemployment.
- Companies that enter into contracts for training and learning are entitled throughout the term of the contract, including extensions, to a reduction in employer Social Security contributions for common contingencies, as well as those for occupational accidents and occupational diseases, unemployment, FOGASA and vocational training.
- Companies that upon completion of its initial term or extended contracts to transform education and learning in permanent contracts are entitled to a reduction in the employer’s contribution to Social Security for three years from:
- 1,500 euros / year for men
- 1,800 euros / year for women
6. What are the advantages for the company and for the worker Training Contract?
THE COMPANY:
- Savings 100% of Social Security if the requirements are met.
- Savings of 100% of the bonus cost of theoretical training.
- Bonus for three years, 1,500 euros (for men) or 1,800 euros (for women) per year if the training contract becomes indefinite.
- No limits on the number of hires. For every three training contracts should have a tutor in the company.
THE WORKER:
- The worker shall receive full unemployment benefit and social security coverage.
- The theoretical training will be subsidized 100%. On completion, the student may request the issuance of a Certificate of Competence.
