(1) The employer is obliged to create the necessary conditions and to favor the professional and technical training of the employees who follow the training in production, improve themselves or study in educational institutions, without leaving the activity.

(2) Within each unit, a legal entity, the employer, together with the employees' representatives, draws up and approves annually the professional training plans.

(3) The conditions, modalities and duration of the professional training, the rights and obligations of the parties, as well as the volume of financial means allocated for this purpose (amounting to at least 2 percent of the unit's salary fund), are established in the collective labor contract; in the collective agreement.

(4) If the participation of the employees in the professional training courses or internships is initiated by the employer, all the related expenses shall be borne by him.

(5) In case of dismissal of the employee for a short period, for the purpose of professional training, the action of his individual employment contract continues with the maintenance of the average salary. If the respective period exceeds 60 calendar days, the individual employment contract of the employee is suspended, he benefiting from an indemnity paid by the employer according to the provisions of the collective labor contract.