3.6.8.3. Contents

This measures covers young people aged between 19 and 32 - and long-term unemployed persons registered in the placement lists aged up to 35 - in areas affected by a serious imbalance between labour supply and demand and in areas listed under Objectives 1 and 2 of EU Directives 2052/88 and 328/88.

The plans are implemented by means of the following instruments:

a) Projects involving socially useful work and participation in vocational training initiatives or which enable participants to acquire basic training, provide vocational retraining for persons with the secondary level high school certificate, or enable young people with a secondary educa-tion certificate to participate in a further education training course.

b) Projects providing for periods of vocational training and work experience by vocationally trained persons. Such projects are conducted on the basis of agreements that are prepared by the employment offices and signed between the Ministry of Labour and the employer and professional organisations signing the above-mentioned agreements.

Young people may participate in a project up to a maximum of 80 hours per month and for a maximum of 12 months. Such participation does not imply the start of an employment relationship and thus participants are not struck off the placement lists; the employer may recruit the young person at the end of the project on a training-cum-work contract in the same occupational area. The organisers of such projects must show that they have taken out insurance against accidents and occupational illness linked to the project.

Young participants receive ITL 7,500 for each hour of training attended and each hour worked.

3.6.8.4. Institutional support

Ministry of Labour, provincial and regional employment offices, regional employment agencies. The training elements of the projects - under (a) - are to be implemented in conjunction with the responsible institutions.

3.6.8.5. Financial resources

Half of the costs of remuneration (with the exception of those for training hours) are borne by the enterprise in which the project takes place, in accordance with the details set out in the agree-ment. The above-mentioned plans are financed by the Employment Fund set up by the Ministry of Labour (Art. 1, § 7, Law 236/93).

3.6.8.6. Duration

The plans will be implemented until 1998.

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