(1) Employees with work at home are considered the persons who have concluded an individual labor contract regarding the performance of work at home with the use of materials, tools and mechanisms provided by the employer or procured from their own means.

(2) In case the employee uses his own tools and mechanisms at home, he is paid a compensation for their wear and tear. The payment of this compensation, as well as the compensation of other expenses related to the provision of work at home, is made by the employer in the manner established by the individual employment contract.

(3) The manner and terms of insuring the employees with work at home with raw materials, materials and semi-finished products, making payments for the finished production, refunding the value of the materials belonging to the employees working at home, as well as taking over the finished production, are established by the individual employment contract.

(4) The employees with work at home fall under the incidence of the labor legislation, with the particularities established by the present code.

The works assigned to the employees with work at home cannot be contraindicated according to the medical certificate and must be executed in conditions of observance of the norms of safety and health at work.

Termination of the individual employment contract concluded with employees working at home takes place on the general grounds provided by this code.

(1) Remote work is the form of work organization in the fields of activity, through which the employee fulfills his duties specific to the occupation, function or profession he holds in another place than the one organized by the employer, including means in the field of information technology; communications.

(2) Remote employees are employees who have concluded an individual employment contract or an additional agreement to the existing contract, which contain distance employment clauses.

(1) The employee with distance work enjoys all the rights and guarantees provided by law, the collective labor contract, the individual employment contract or other normative act at unit level applicable to employees whose job is organized by the employer .

(2) The particularities regarding remote work may be provided in the individual employment contract, in the collective labor contract or in the internal regulation of the unit or in another normative act at unit level.

(1) The individual employment contract for distance work shall be concluded and amended under the conditions provided for in this Code, including by the exchange of electronic documents with the use of a qualified advanced electronic signature.

(2) The individual employment contract regarding distance work must contain, in addition to the clauses provided in art. 49, clauses regarding:

a) the conditions for performing distance work;

b) the program within which the employer is entitled to verify the activity of the employee and regarding the manner of performing the control;

c) the manner of recording the working hours provided by the employee with remote work;

d) the conditions regarding the bearing of the expenses related to the activity in the remote work regime;

e) other conditions agreed by the parties.

The employer organizes the safety and health at work of employees with remote work in accordance with the provisions of the Law on safety and health at work no. 186/2008, as well as other normative acts in the field of occupational safety and health.

Termination of the individual employment contract for distance work shall take place under the general conditions provided for in this Code, including by the exchange of electronic documents with the use of a qualified advanced electronic signature.