www.Droit-Afrique.com • Mali modalities for out-of-court settlement of difficulties that may arise from the performance of the agreement. Art.D.9-4.- Companies, groups of companies, associations, private institutions and organisations, professional organisations, trade unions or family organisations, local governments, and state institutions shall be involved in these agreements, either as applicants for training, or in order to provide their support, whether technical or financial, for the realisation of programmes, or as training providers. Art.D.9-5.- Any young person between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five may complete initial training within the framework of alternance training. They shall be intended to enable youths acquire a professional qualification, to adapt to a job or a type of job or ease their professional insertion or orientation. They shall associate general professional and technological education provided during working hours, in public and private training institutions, and the acquisition of know-how through involvement in a company milieu in one or several activities related to the education received. They shall be organised as part of: • special-type employment contracts; • training periods provided for in a standard employment contract; • various professional training internships. Art.D.9-6.- Trainings that target the acquisition of a professional qualification shall be provided within the framework of an employment contract known as “ training-employment contract ”. It shall last between six months and two years. It shall have to be attested to in writing. It shall be filed at the regional labour office. The employer shall promise, for the planned duration, to give the young person a job and provide this youth with training that will enable him/her to obtain a professional qualification recognised in the rankings of a sector labour agreement or found in the list prepared by the minister of labour. Subject to more advantageous provisions, workers who have a training-employment contract Implementing Decree of the Labour Code contractual shall receive remuneration determined in accordance with the national minimum wage guaranteed yearly through a ministerial decision and whose amount is fixed and may vary depending on the beneficiary's age Art.D.9-7.- The Higher Labour Council shall • 1° give its opinion on the orientations of the policy on profession training and social advancement depending on the needs of the economy and job prospects; • 2° examine and suggest the appropriate measures to ensure improved cooperation between administrations and professional as well as trade union organisations in order to ensure the full use of public or private resources for professional training and social advancement; • 3° make any useful proposal for programmes and methods to be more adapted to the needs of the various categories that have to receive professional training and social advancement. Art.D.9-8.- Other training modalities shall be defined through agreements and company-level agreements, or otherwise through an agreement between the parties. Fixed-term Contract (Pursuant to articles L.20 and L.24) Art.D.20-1.- The employment contract entered into pursuant to article L.20 shall have to include, besides the precise definition of its purpose as provided for in this article, the following information : • when it has been concluded to temporarily replace a company worker whose employment contract was suspended legally, the name and qualification of the worker replaced ; • when it has a specific duration, the maturity date of the duration and, where applicable, a clause that provides for the postponement of the duration ; • when it does not include a clear duration, the minimum duration for which it was concluded ; • the name of the work station or position occupied; • the duration of the probationary period ultimately provided for. Art.D.24-1.- Absent the specification through an agreement or a company-wide agreement, the minimum compensation for the end of the contract provided for in accordance with the conditions spelt out in article L.24 shall be equal to 2.5 % of the amount of the total gross remuneration owed the worker 4/29