On 1 August 2022, the Act implementing the EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions (the Act) likely will enter into force, as EU Member States have until that date to implement the directive into their own national laws. As a result, employers will have to revise standard employment agreements and employee handbooks.
The Act will implement the EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions in the European Union (the Directive) adopted 20 June 2019. The Act and the Directive promote more transparent and predictable working conditions and patterns while ensuring adaptability in the labor market. This GT Alert summarizes the Act’s key elements.
Employers will no longer be able to recover mandatory training costs if the employer is required to offer such training by law or by an applicable collective labor agreement. Therefore, any study-costs clause under which an employee could become responsible for (re-)payment of mandatory training will be void. Further, employees should be given the opportunity – as far as possible – to complete the training during working hours, and the hours spent on the training will count as working time.
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