
The draft proposal for labor law reform was approved on Thursday by the Council of Ministers and delivered to social partners.
The government aims to remove the clause in the Labor Code that mandates a trial period of 180 days for workers seeking their first job and long-term unemployed individuals in indefinite employment contracts, according to the document.
The current law stipulates a 180-day trial period for these cases but allows for it to be “reduced or excluded based on the length of a previous fixed-term employment contract with a different employer, if it was equal to or longer than 90 days.”
Generally, the Labor Code sets a 90-day trial period for the majority of employees with indefinite contracts.
Exceptions exist. Beyond first-time job seekers and long-term unemployed individuals, employees in roles involving technical complexity, high responsibility, or special qualifications, as well as those in trust-based positions, are subject to a 180-day trial period under current law.
There are no proposed changes to the trial periods for fixed-term contracts and service commission contracts.
The government’s draft, still to be debated with social partners, also suggests repealing the rule that “the trial period is reduced or excluded if a professional internship with positive evaluation, for the same activity and different employer, lasted 90 days or more within the last 12 months.”
The Minister of Labor explained that this labor legislation reform, which will be negotiated with social partners, addresses “30 key issues” and includes revising “over a hundred articles of the Labor Code.”