Chapter VIII, Section X of the Labor Code, regulates the rules of conducting employee training. Due to their function of improving the qualifications of employees, they play an important role in the development of the workplace, which is desirable both for the employer and the employees themselves.
One of the employer’s obligations is to help employees improve their professional qualifications. This obligation can be fulfilled not only by referring employees to various types of training, courses or studies, but also by not disturbing employees who undertook education on their own initiative.
The employer has the option to send employees for on-the-job training. In this case, they receive remuneration for this period in the usual manner, and the training course is treated as a form of fulfilling professional duties.
The employer may also delegate subordinates to training during non-working days. If the purpose of training is to acquire or improve skills that an employee will use both at work and outside of work, it is usually not included in working time.
Participation in it is voluntary and the employer does not pay remuneration for it. Such training does not entitle you to pick up your day off at another time.
Another type of training during non-working days are those that are directly related to the professional duties performed. An important feature of such trainings is their obligatory nature – participation in them is an official order. Then the training is included in the working time.
One of the most important training courses we may encounter in the workplace is hygiene and workplace training. Pursuant to the provisions of the Labor Code (Article 2373), the employer is obliged to provide training to the employee in this regard before allowing him to work. He is also obliged to conduct periodic trainings. An exception to the training obligation is the case of an employee in an administrative and office position, when the type of predominant activity of the employer within the meaning of the provisions on public statistics is in the group of activities for which a risk category of no higher than three has been established.
It must not be forgotten that the employer is also obliged to undergo training in the field of occupational health and safety to the extent necessary to perform his duties. Moreover, this training should be repeated periodically.
In addition, it is worth emphasizing that the employee must not be allowed to work for which he or she does not have the required qualifications or the necessary skills, as well as sufficient knowledge of the provisions and principles of health and safety at work. Occupational health and safety training always takes place during work and at the employer’s expense.
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