Open-ended employment contract (Spain)
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For a company or self-employed person in Spain hiring an employee on an open-ended contract, full-time or part-time. It sets out the position and professional group, the collective agreement, a trial period within the limits of art. 14 of the Spanish Workers' Statute, working hours, salary and the two extra payments, holidays, training and notice, with the written information required by Spanish Royal Decree 723/2026. Signed in two copies before work starts. In Spanish.
- Made for use in Spain
- Last updated October 20, 2026
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When to use this document
- You are taking on your first employee for your business in Spain and want a permanent contract.
- You are offering a permanent job to someone who has been working for you without a written contract.
- A new member of staff starts in a few days and nothing has been put in writing yet.
- You want pay, hours, holidays and the trial period set out in a contract both sides sign.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- City
- Date
- Person signing for the employer
- DNI or NIE of the person signing for the employer (Spanish identity number)
- Capacity in which they sign (e.g. sole director, or owner if the employer is an individual)
- Employer (company name or, for an individual, full name)
- Employer's NIF (Spanish tax number)
- Employer's address (registered office, for a company)
- Company's entry in the Spanish Registro Mercantil (if any)
- Employee
- Employee's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- Employee's address
- Full-time or part-time
- Start date
- Position
- Professional group or category under the collective agreement
- Collective agreement applied: name, code and official bulletin it was published in (or “none”)
- Duties
- Place of work
- Trial period (e.g. “two months” or “no trial period”)
- Weekly working hours
- Working hours
- Salary in words
- Gross base salary
- Other components of pay
- How the two extra payments are paid
- Method of payment
- Day of payment
- Who covers work accidents and occupational illness (the mutua or Spain's INSS)
- Additional terms
Common questions
- Does an open-ended employment contract in Spain have to be in writing?
- A full-time open-ended contract may be oral, but a part-time one must be in writing, and either party may require written form at any time (art. 8.2 of the Spanish Workers' Statute); without it the contract is presumed open-ended and full-time. Since 5 October 2026 the employer must also give the employee the working conditions in writing before work starts (Spanish Royal Decree 723/2026). This contract contains them.
- How long can the trial period of an open-ended contract in Spain be?
- Whatever the collective agreement sets and, if it says nothing, six months for qualified technicians and two months for everyone else; in companies with fewer than twenty-five employees, three months for those who are not qualified technicians (art. 14.1 of the Spanish Workers' Statute). It must be agreed in writing and is void if the employee has already done the same job in the company. During the trial either side may end the contract without notice or compensation.
- Does Spain's public employment service offer free model contracts?
- Yes. The Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE) publishes free model employment contracts on sepe.es, including the open-ended one, and a model information sheet on working conditions under Royal Decree 723/2026; the employer reports the contract to the SEPE through Contrat@, also free; registration with Spanish social security is done free through Import@ss. This document is a contract set out in clauses, with the information required by Royal Decree 723/2026, for those who prefer it; it does not replace those filings.
How you can sign this document
- Print it and sign by hand. The signature lines in the document are left blank on purpose — sign on them in ink.
- Sign it yourself with a qualified electronic signature. If you already hold a QES — Evrotrust, B-Trust, StampIT, ZealiD or any qualified provider on the EU Trusted List, on a card, a USB token, in a mobile app or in the cloud — our signing guide explains step by step how to sign this exact file without invalidating it. Step-by-step help, and a way to check it worked
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