(1) By professional training is meant any training process as a result of which an employee acquires a qualification, attested by a certificate or a diploma issued in accordance with the law.

(2) Continuous professional training means any training process in which an employee, already having a qualification or a profession, completes his professional knowledge by deepening his knowledge in a certain field of the basic specialty or by learning some methods or procedures. new applied in the respective specialty.

(3) By technical training is meant any training system through which an employee acquires the procedures of application in the work process of technical and technological means.

(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.

(1) The employee has the right to professional training, including obtaining a new profession or specialty. This right can be realized by concluding, in written form, some professional training contracts (art. 215, 216 par. (3) and (4)), additional to the individual employment contract.

(2) Suspended)

(3) If the employee comes with the initiative of participating in a form of professional training with decommissioning, organized outside the unit, the employer will examine the written request of the employee jointly with the employees' representatives.

(4) Within 15 calendar days from the date of registration of the request, the employer shall decide under what conditions he may allow the employee to participate in a form of professional training according to paragraph (3) and whether he shall bear, in whole or in part, its cost.