Art. 16. [form of the employment contract]
(1) An individual employment contract shall be concluded on the basis of the parties’ written consent, in the Romanian language. The obligation to conclude the individual employment contract in a written form lies with the employer. A legal person, a natural person authorized to perform an independent activity or a family association acting as an employer shall conclude the individual employment contract in writing, before the beginning of the employment relationships.
(2) In case the individual employment contract has not been concluded in writing, it shall be presumed to be of unlimited duration, and the parties may prove by any other type of evidence the contractual provisions and the services provided.
(3) The work performed under an individual employment contract shall be included in employee’s length of service.