3.4.Training, Retraining and Occupational Mobility
GR-iv.1 The apprenticeship system
GR-iv.2 Continuing vocational training
GR-iv.3 Enterprise-level continuous training programme
GR-iv.4 Technical and vocational training
GR-iv.5 Institutes of Vocational Training (IEK)
Introduction
A number of laws, such as Law 2009/92 "On the National System of Vocational Training and Further Training" and Law 2224/94, have been passed with the following aims:
- to organise and coordinate vocational training and further training,
- to examine and approve the training courses and programmes,
- to decentralise the organisation and implementation of vocational training and further training,
- to provide for the participation of the social partners and other social organisations (in a decentralised way) in decision-making and policy formation.
Further details are given below.
a) Since 1992 the OAED has run Institutes of Vocational Training (IEK) in accordance with the provisions of Law 2009/92. The aim of these institutes is to provide trainees with a comprehensive and varied vocational training, covering both initial and further training, a corresponding certified qualification and the scientific, technical, occupational and practical knowledge, skills and competence to facilitate their occupational and social integration and to ensure that they are able to adjust to the changing requirements of the production process. The students at the IEK are largely drawn from upper-level secondary school-leavers. The training lasts two years.
Financial resources
European Union 75%, OAED 25%.
Institutional support
- Office for Vocational Training and Further Training (OEEK);
- OAED.
b) Law 2224/94 provides for the establishment of Regional Administrative Committees (PDE) within the regional directorates of the OAED, which are responsible for policy implementation and the realisation of employment and vocational training programmes at regional level. The social partners are active in the regional Administrative Committees on a bipartite basis.
In addition, this law provides for the creation of Administrative Committees for Vocational Training (EDE) in the training units of the OAED, which are responsible for the work and organisation of the training centres and the implementation of the training programmes. The social partners are active on a bipartite basis in these committees, too. The social partners also participate in a Special Fund for Vocational Training and Further Training Programmes (ELPEKE) into which the employers pay 0.45% of their payroll in order to finance the implementation of training programmes in the firms.
Also of note is a training and employment programme focusing on young people under which private-sector firms that have trained young unemployed are entitled to a grant if they guarantee the trainee employment within the firm for one year (on-the-job training).
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