Apprentice

If you intend to sit for a trade or journeyman’s certificate examination in a recognized trade, you can sign an in-service training contract with a training establishment. Then you are an apprentice.

Apprentice’s rights and obligations

• As an apprentice you must actively participate in both training and value creation in the training establishment.
• You are entitled to receive the training that the curriculum stipulates, but you are also obligated to participate actively to reach your training goals and to participate in the planning and evaluation of your own learning work.
• You are to help create a good working environment and good working conditions.
• You must sit for the craft or journeyman’s examination that the training establishment signs you up for.
• Your period of training is determined in your apprenticeship contract based on normal working hours for your trade.
• You are an employee of the training establishment, with the rights and obligations determined by legislation and by the collective bargaining agreement, for example working hours and holidays.
• Like all other employees, in addition to your apprenticeship contract, you are entitled to a written working agreement with the training establishment.