Payback clause
- Name of the instrument - Local language
- Pacto de permanência
- Name of the instrument - English translation
- Payback clause
- Scheme ID
- 246
- Country
- Portugal
- Reporting year
- 2015
- Type of instrument
- Payback clause
- Type of entry
- Single instrument
- Short description
Employers and employees can agree on a payback clause. The contractual parties may agree that an employee cannot cancel the work contract for a period of up to 3 years to compensate an employer for large expenses incurred for the employee’s vocational training. Employees are not bound by the contractual retention period if they reimburse the training costs.
- Short description of the related instruments
nap
- Level of operation
- National
- Name of a part of the country
- nap
- Name of the region (for regional instruments)
- nap
- Name of the sector (for sectoral instruments)
- nap
- Relevance
- Marginal scheme
- Legal basis
Labour code, 2009, Art. 137
- Year of implementation
- 1966
- Operation/management
Agreement between employer and employee
- Eligible group(s)
Employers, employees
- Group(s) with preferential treatment
None
- Education and training eligible
Professional training
- Source of financing and collection mechanism
Employer, employee
- Financing formula and allocation mechanisms
Contractual parties may agree that an employee cannot resign from the work contract for a period of up to 3 years to compensate an employer for large expenses incurred for the employee’s vocational training.
- Volumes of funding
na
- Beneficiaries/take up
na
- Organisation responsible for monitoring/evaluation
Government of Portugal (responsible for legislation).
- Monitoring/evaluation reports available
na
- Most relevant webpage - in English
na
- Most relevant webpage - local language
na
- Sources
Labour Code: http://www.pgdlisboa.pt/leis/lei_mostra_estrutura.php?tabela=leis&artig…
- Short description
- Short description of the related instruments
- Level of operation
- Name of a part of the country
- Name of the region (for regional instruments)
- Name of the sector (for sectoral instruments)
- Relevance
- Legal basis
- Year of implementation
- Operation/management
- Eligible group(s)
- Group(s) with preferential treatment
- Education and training eligible
- Source of financing and collection mechanism
- Financing formula and allocation mechanisms
- Volumes of funding
- Beneficiaries/take up
- Organisation responsible for monitoring/evaluation
- Monitoring/evaluation reports available
- Most relevant webpage - in English
- Most relevant webpage - local language
- Sources