Internship contract / Contract for hiring a trainee

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Since 2014, an option has been introduced in our legislation to hire a person under an internship contract. This option allows the intern to gain experience in the specialty they have studied and have no experience in. The trainee is looked after by a mentor who is an employee of the employer. The mentor must have a professional qualification and experience in the field of training or similar to the person’s field of training. The interns enjoy all the rights of those working in an employment relationship, including the right to safe and healthy working conditions, union membership, collective bargaining, etc.

The intern must meet the following requirements:

• be a person under the age of 29;
• to have graduated from secondary or higher education with a professional orientation in which he will be employed;
• to have no work experience or professional experience in the profession or specialty acquired by him.

Teacher:

• have a minimum of 3 years of work experience or professional experience in the activity
• the relationship between the employer and the mentor is regulated by an additional agreement to his employment contract, in which the distribution of working hours and other conditions for the implementation of the mentoring are determined.

Duration of the contract:

• from 6 to 12 months with one hired person;

Possibility to terminate:

• With 15 days’ notice from one or the other party to the contract. Upon termination of the contract, the person is not protected from unemployment.

Reward:

• At the discretion of the employer, but not less than the minimum wage in the country, and the conditions regulated in the Labor Code must also be observed.

Registration in the NRA:

• The internship contract is an employment contract and as such its conclusion is subject to declaration before the National Revenue Agency. For this purpose, changes were also initiated in Ordinance No. 5 on the content and order of sending the notification under Art. 62, para. 5 of the Labor Code. A new code – 16 has been added to the grounds for concluding the employment contract, specifically for the contract with an internship condition.

Verification of learning outcomes:

• In 15 days from the end of the training, the employer issues a certificate (recommendation) certifying the results of the training, which will serve him when applying for a job with another employer

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