Spain: The Government approves the implementing regulations on training contracts

Royal Decree 1065/2025 implements the rules on the training contract set out in article 11 of the Workers’ Statute, for the two contract types, following the amendments introduced by Royal Decree-law 32/2021.

Among the new provisions, the number of training contracts in force at the same time at each workplace of the same company has been capped, and will be aligned with the company’s actual capacity to guarantee training rights, categorized as follows:

• Up to ten employees: three contracts.
• Between eleven and thirty employees: seven contracts.
• Between thirty-one and fifty employees: ten contracts.
• More than fifty employees: twenty per cent of the total workforce.

Employees hired under training contracts are not included for determining the size of a company’s workforce. Sectoral collective agreements may lower these limits.

The royal decree largely reproduces the rules in article 11 of the Workers’ Statute in addition to implementing certain elements:

• The aim of the alternance training contract is to combine paid work in an integrated and coordinated manner with the relevant training processes in vocational training systems, university courses or the Catalogue of Training Specialties in the National Employment System. It contains provisions on the requirements, duration, working time arrangements and remuneration applicable to these contracts. Probationary periods are not allowed. There is also a section on the labor elements linked to training activities, collaboration agreements, individual training plans and tutoring.
• The contract for obtaining work experience is intended to give trainees the chance to obtain work experience appropriate to their studies or training, by acquiring the skills and capabilities needed for the jobs associated with the qualification or certificate held by the worker. The decree implements the requirements, time limits for entering into the contract, maximum term, remuneration and working time, and a maximum one-month probationary period, among other elements. It also sets out the contents of individual training plans, tutoring and the work experience certificate.

The royal decree was published on November 27, 2025 and will enter into force twenty days after its publication.