Work Experience Contract - ETH

Sample contract for compulsory work experience in the Master of Environmental Sciences
programme at the Department of Environmental Systems Science of the ETH
Work Experience Contract
The company _________________________________________________________
agrees to employ as a trainee,
Mr./Ms. __________________________________ , born __________________ ,
Address __________________________________________________________ ,
student of the Department of Environmental Systems Science of the ETH Zurich.
1. General clauses
This contract is based on the programme regulations 2006 of the Master programme in
Environmental Sciences Art. 17, § 3, Art. 26 and 37, ed. 16.11.2010-5 (RSETHZ 324.1.1002.10).
The trainee will perform tasks to the best of his/her ability.
Name of the person mainly responsible for the student’s support in the company
_____________________.
2. Duration of the work experience
The work experience will last for a period of at least eighteen (18) weeks, including holidays. The
work experience will begin on ___________ and will be completed on ___________. The trainee
will work _______ hours per week. If the trainee is incapacitated due to sickness or accident for a
period of more than two (2) weeks the loss of working hours will be made up for.
3. Holidays
The following arrangement covers holidays: ___________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
4. Salary
The salary will be CHF ______________ per month before deductions and fractions of a month
will be paid proportionately.
5. Insurances
The trainee is insured against all medical costs arising from accident through the obligatory health
insurance in accordance with the Federal Law on Health Insurance.
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The trainee is insured/not insured (please cross out whichever does not apply) against liability on
the basis of the liability insurance of the company.
6. Confidential information
The trainee undertakes to respect the company’s confidential information; he/she will be informed
of such confidential nature by the company. The confidential sections of the work experience
report will be drafted in general terms or will be excluded from the report, if the company so
desires, provided that the report as a whole does not lose its validity. Should essential parts of the
report be thus affected, these sections shall be drafted separately and with the company’s consent
will be assessed only by the supervising lecturer of the ETH Zurich. This section of the report will
not be made generally available. If necessary, the entire work experience report can be so treated.
7. Disputes
If differences between the company and the trainee arise, attempts will be made to solve them
through personal talks. If either party so desires, or in a case where no agreement can be
reached, the practical advisory service of the Master programme in Environmental Sciences will be
called upon to mediate.
8. Completion of work experience
Upon completion of the work experience the company will issue the trainee a written certificate of
employment. The company will fill in the form “Acceptance of the work experience report(s) and
publishing agreement” and the questionnaire “Company’s final evaluation of the work experience”.
This contract will be drawn up in two copies. One copy will remain with the company; the other
copy will be given to the trainee.
For the company:
Signature:
The trainee:
Signature:
______________________________
_______________________________
Date:_________________________
Date: _________________________
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