I-iv.2 Vocational training schemes in disadvantaged areas
3.4.2.I-iv.2 Vocational training schemes in disadvantaged areas (Interventi di formazione professionale in aree svantaggiate)
3.4.2.1. Aim
To provide retraining for workers in regions affected by serious imbalance between labour supply and demand; the measure is not limited to specific geographical regions
3.4.2.2. Legal basis
- Framework-Law 845 of 21.12.1978 on vocational training (Art. 26);
- Decree-Law 148/93, converted into Law 236/93 (Art. 9).
3.4.2.3. Contents
Where there is serious imbalance between labour supply and demand in the labour market, the regions concerned can present plans for vocational training in various sectors, and for all voca-tio-nal qualifications. The beneficiaries of these schemes can be:
- unemployed people registered on placement lists (18-29 years of age);
- workers in the Extraordinary Wage Compensation Fund (retraining and integration in produc-tion);
- workers in companies who need to be retrained.
For projects which concern the unemployed, the initiative comes from the regions (through the inter-mediary of vocational training assessors); for the other categories, companies can submit pro-jects (which are subsequently agreed to by the regions).
The selection of projects takes place based on the supervision provided by the specialised servi-ces of the regions. Projects selected by these services are submitted for study to the Ministry of Labour, who approves them by Decree (together with the Ministry of the Treasury), and provides the corresponding financing and the methods of supervising teaching activities and the final review of the work carried out. The maximum duration of these courses is 1,200 hours.
3.4.2.4. Financial resources
The projects are financed as follows:
- 30% at the beginning of the activities;
- 30% halfway through the course;
- the remaining 40% after the final review.
Under Article 9 of Law 236/93 the costs are borne by the vocational training fund.
3.4.2.5. Institutional support
The regions, the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of the Treasury.
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