Common use of Work Experience Placements Clause in Contracts

Work Experience Placements. 1. To persons with no or no more than two years of relevant work or research experience who are or threaten to become unemployed, or to persons who are employed but in a position that is unrelated to their education the employer may, if so requested by these persons, offer a work experience placement for a period of no more than one year. 2. Work experience placements are not regular positions and may not replace regular positions. 3. Persons in a work experience placement do not receive a salary for their work. However, their expenses may be covered on a declaration basis, if these expenses are related to the work experience placement. Expenses include travel fares to and from the location of the work experience placement. 4. The agreements reached with regard to the work experience placement, including the duration, number of hours, nature of the work and the expenses that may be reimbursed are laid down in a work experience placement contract. 5. The CAO and the internal rules pertaining to it do not apply to work experience placements, with the exception of this article, articles 1.6, paragraphs 5 through 8, article 1.6, paragraph 20, article 1.6, paragraph 21, and article 1.9. 6. If persons are unemployed and have an unemployment benefit or related benefit, permission from the benefits agency is required to qualify for a work experience placement.