(1) An employer may be a religious association registered in accordance with the procedure established by the current legislation and concluded an individual labor contract with an employee.

(2) An employee may be a person who has reached the age of sixteen, who has entered into an individual labor contract with a religious association, who performs certain work in accordance with the profession, specialty, position and is subject to the internal regulations of the religious association.

The rights and obligations of the parties to an individual labor contract are determined in the contract, taking into account the specifics stipulated by the internal regulations of the religious association, which do not contradict the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, this law and other applicable normative acts.

(1) An individual labor contract between an employee and a religious association may be concluded for a specified period (Art. 55, point m)).

(2) By entering into an individual labor contract, the employee undertakes to perform any work not prohibited by the law and specified in the contract.

(3) The individual labor contract includes the conditions established as a result of negotiations between the employee and the religious association - the employer, which do not contradict this law.

(4) If it becomes necessary to modify the individual labor contract, the interested party is obliged to notify the other party about this in written form at least seven calendar days prior to the amendment. 

The working regime of employees in religious associations is established on the basis of the regime for the implementation of rituals or other activities of a religious association, determined by its internal regulations, taking into account the normal duration of rest and working hours provided by this law.

(1) In addition to the general grounds provided by this law, an individual labor contract concluded by an employee with a religious association may also be terminated on other grounds provided by the contract, point j of Article 82.

(2) The terms for warning an employee of a religious association about release on the grounds provided by the individual labor contract, as well as the procedure and conditions for providing him guarantees and compensations in connection with the release, are established by the individual labor contract.

(3) An employee of a religious association has the right to resign by notifying the employer of this in written form at least seven calendar days in advance.

Individual labor disputes arising between an employee and a religious association and not settled by mutual consent are resolved in court in accordance with this law (Section XII).