Temporary Recruitment and Employment Contract Regulations
Item 6: Temporary Recruitment Regulations
The Workers' Statute (ET) provides entrepreneurs the freedom to choose temporary recruitment under specific limits:
- a) Work or service
- b) Any
- c) Interim
- d) Promotion of disabled employees
Apart from these cases, an employer may not hire temporarily.
Indefinite Contracts
These can be categorized as:
- Regular Indefinite Contract
- Contract for the Promotion of Permanent Contracts: This scheme is restricted to specific unemployed workers with limited market access:
- a) Young people aged 16 to 30 years and those over 45.
- b) Disabled workers.
- c) Long-term unemployed (requires written agreement).
Temporary Contracts
Structural Contracts
- A) Recruitment for the realization of a specific work.
- B) Recruitment for production circumstances:
- a) If the maximum legal or conventional limit is exhausted, the contract is presumed to be indefinite.
- b) If the limit is not exhausted, it may be extended.
- C) Recruitment of temporary workers:
- 1) Contract of substitution.
- 2) Contract for vacancy:
- To meet the reduced hours of a worker.
- If the replaced post is filled by a part-time worker.
Note: The law requires a written contract when the interim period lasts longer than 4 weeks or involves part-time work.
Duration and Termination
- Replacement: Lasts for the duration of the job reservation. Terminates when the substituted employee returns to their job.
- Vacancy: Lasts for the duration of the selection process or 3 months. Terminates upon completion of the selection procedure or after 3 months.
Cyclical Contracts
Contract for the Employment of Disabled Workers: Its purpose is to encourage the hiring of disabled or unemployed workers. It prohibits employment by the company for 12 months if there was a prior firing. Termination occurs via mutual agreement, worker's death, or voluntary departure.
Fraud and Illegal Hiring
According to the ET, contracts concluded in violation of the law are deemed indefinite.
- a) Fraud of Law: Occurs when the aim is to achieve a goal against the law and undermine the worker's stability.
- b) Illegal Hiring: Occurs when there are no causality requirements, proper form, or Social Security registration.