---
title: "Standard Employment Contracts"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/labor-and-employment-law-en/standard-employment-contracts-en"
field: "Labor & Employment Law"
description: "Open-ended employment contracts in Georgia: Labour Code Articles 12, 14, 17, 41 — 30-month conversion, 6-month probation, 0.07%. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-03-25"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "Legal.Ge"
---

# Standard Employment Contracts

> Source: Legal.Ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/labor-and-employment-law-en/standard-employment-contracts-en

## What Drafting an Open-Ended Contract Means

The open-ended employment contract is the default regime of employment under the Georgian Labour Code: the system is built so that the open-ended contract is the rule and the fixed-term one the exception that requires a ground. Where the employment relationship exceeds 1 month, the contract must be in written form. And where a fixed-term contract is concluded without a ground provided by law, it is deemed open-ended — this automatic conversion is the foundation of the drafting strategy.

The numerical boundaries of conversion are in the law itself: a term exceeding 30 months makes the contract open-ended; fixed-term contracts concluded consecutively that exceed 30 months operate the same way, consecutive meaning continuation immediately upon expiry or a new contract within 60 days. The drafter stands before these numbers in advance: each fixed-term block must fit within the law's frame of 30 months and 60 days.

## Essential Terms — the Completion Checklist

The content of the open-ended contract is described by the Code's list of essential terms: information about the parties; the start date of work and the duration of the relationship; working and rest time; the workplace — permanent, or an indication of multiple places; the position and the type or description of the work; remuneration — salary and supplements — and the manner of payment; the overtime remuneration procedure; the duration of paid and unpaid leave and the rules for granting them; the termination procedure; and the provisions of collective agreements where working conditions are regulated differently.

Two tests apply to the quality of completion: completeness — no item may remain in a simplified formulation; and conformity — a term contradicting the law or the collective agreement is void unless it improves the employee's position. On the employee's request the employer must also issue a certificate of employment — covering the work performed, the remuneration and the contract's term.

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### Why is open-ended the default?

Because a fixed term requires a ground, and a fixed-term contract without one is deemed open-ended.

### What is the conversion limit?

30 months per contract and for consecutive ones; consecutive means continuation or re-conclusion within 60 days.

### Probation rule?

Once, up to 6 months, in writing, with pay.

### What interest accrues on delay?

0.07 percent of the delayed amount each day.

### What happens to groundless fixed terms?

The contract is deemed open-ended.