Diapositiva 1

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THE EVOLUTION OF CONTINUING VOCATIONAL
TRAINING POLICIES IN ITALY
Continuing Vocational Training Supplies and
Policies Department by F.G.
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Benchmarking indicators
Literacy and numeracy Skills of an Italian
representative sample of 16 to 65 year-olds
dont match with areas of the economy that are
growing (Italys score is significantly lower
than the partecipating states average)
Adult Literacy and Lifeskills (ALL) Survey 2003
4,7 compared to an EU25 average of 9,7
Lifelong Learning 2003
Enterprises providing courses (24 compared to an
EU15 average of 62)
CVTS2 1999
Partecipation rate of employees (26 compared to
an EU15 average of 40)
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The enterprises investment in CVT has received a
strong boost in recent years
CVT enterprise expenditure -2000/2005
(Millions Euro)
Note households and public sector expenditure
excluded
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Training policies are supported by financial
subsidies
Main players and devices supporting CVT public
funding system

• European Social Fund
• (Regulation n. 1081/2006)
• National Laws
• (Laws 236/1993 and 53/2000)
• Industry-based
• Training Funds (ITFs)
• (Law 388/2000 amended by art. 48 Law 289/2002)

Regions and Provinces
Social Partners
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Funding flow for CVT (until 2000) (0.30 of
payroll as a compulsory levy against involuntary
unemployment) Art. 25 of Law 845/1978
Paid by enterprises to

1/3 Ministry of Labour
2/3 Ministry of Economy
CVT interventions
National Social Security Institute
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Funding flow for CVT (2002-2003 transition
phase) (0.30 of payroll as a compulsory levy
against involuntary unemployment)
Paid by enterprises to

1/3 Ministry of Labour
2/3 Ministry of Economy
net value of
ITFs
CVT interventions
National Social Security Institute
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Funding flow for CVT (since 2005)(0.30 of
payroll as a compulsory levy against involuntary
unemployment)
Paid by enterprises to
Assigned to ITFs

1/3 Ministry of Labour
2/3 Ministry of Economy
CVT interventions
National Social Security Institute
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CVT resources deriving from compulsory levy
(0,30)
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CURRENT TREND regarding the use of 0,30

• Industry-based Training Funds the main
  collector of 0,30 (around 300 Millions Euro)
• Residual funding national Law 236/93
• ESF co-financing REGULATION No 1081/2006 on the
  ESF
• Article 11 - Eligibility of expenditure
• The ESF shall provide support towards
  eligible expenditure which () may include
  any financial resources collectively
  contributed by employers and workers.

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Industry-based Training Funds (1)

• New player in the CVT system
• Joint responsability of social partners in the
  programming and management of the Funds
• Setting up through inter-sectoral agreements
• Authorisation from the Ministry of Labour in
  order to start operating

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Industry-based Training Funds (2)

• Four sectors industry, service/tertiary,
  handicraft, agriculture
• Nonprofitorganisations
• Voluntary basis (choice to join the Fund or not)
• Set of rules and regulations which governs their
  functioning

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Industry-based Training Funds (3)

• Equal number of Social partners
  representatives in the management bodies
  structure
• Fund Recipients workers employed by
  any private company to which employer pay the
  compulsory levy of 0,30
• Promotion and financing of training plans at
  corporate, sectoral, local and individual
  level (by call for proposals)

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Industry-based Training Funds (4)

• TRAINING PLAN Activities plan concerted by
  social partners and answering to corporate,
  sectoral, local and individual needs
• Characteristics
• An agreement undersigned by the social partners
  which legitimizes and defines training activities
  and motivates the reasons of the plan
• A project implementing the contents of the
  agreement

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Established and authorised Funds 2006
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National Law 236/93 art. 9 (1)Urgent measures
to support employment

• Traditional channel of funding for ongoing
  training introduced in 1993 but carried out from
  1996
• Training activities
• financed
• Since 2000 allocated 678 Million Euro

In-company training teacher training system
actions corporate , sectoral and territorial
plans promoted by social partner training on
individual choice
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National Law 236/93 (2)

• Strategy evolution from 1996 to date
• Since 1998 (ML act 37) start up of training on
  individual choice
• Since 1999 (ML act 65) experimentation of
  concerted training plans
• Since 2000 (ML act 92) funds allocation to
  Regional Authorities (regionalisation of the Law)
  with the possibility to finance training actions
  implementing specific Ministry conditions
• Since 2003 (ML Decree 296) strategy shift
  through the focus on new recipients
• Since 2006 (ML Decree 107) strategy shift based
  upon an integration employment policy

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National Law 236/93 (3)

• 2003 - Shift in the Law implementation strategy
  which moves towards a specialisation of funding
• Encouragement of integration with the ESF and
  improvement of the various types of public
  support for continuing training, taking into
  account the start-up of funds
• 70 of resources allocated to the regions to be
  spent on action targeting the following - a)
  workers employed by private companies with fewer
  than 15 employees b) workers employed by any
  private company with part-time, fixed-length or
  hybrid self-employed, waged-work contracts as
  well as contracts coming under the reduced
  working hours, modulated or flexible and project
  categories provided for by Law no. 30/2003 c)
  workers employed by any private company that are
  receiving dole and welfare benefits or are over
  the age of 45 or hold elementary school or
  compulsory schooling certificates only. The
  remaining 30 of resources is targeted at
  beneficiaries defined and chosen by the regions
  and autonomous provinces

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National Law 236/93 (4)

• 2006 change in the allocation criterias
• 90 of resources assigned to the Regions on the
  basis of the number of workers employed in
  private companies
• 10 of resurces shared between the Regions with
  employment rates lower than the national average

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National Law 53/00 (1)Provisions in support of
maternity and paternity, the right to care and
trainingand the co-ordination of city hours

• General principle on the basis of which the
  State, Regional and Local Authorities must
  provide training aimed at enabling workers to
  create tailor-made pathways certified and
  recognised with training credits at the national
  and European level
• (Article 6) The training can either be an
  independent choice of the worker or arranged by
  the employer, through Training Plans agreed
  between the social partners
• (Article 5) Employees can apply for a
  suspension of their work contract for leave to
  train for a period not exceeding 11 working
  months, either continuous or distributed over the
  whole of their working lives)

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National Law 53/00 (2)

• Yearly funding allocation 15,4 Million Euro
• Financing two types of actions
• A) workers training projects which, on the basis
  of contract agreements, envisage partial
  reductions of working-hour
• B) Training projects submitted by the workers
  themselves
• Typical practice of Type B)
• Offer further support to reinforce other
  specific measures dedicated to training on
  individual choice (ESF, Law 236/93)

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European Social Fund

• Period 2000-2006
• Objective 3- Priority D - Measure D1
  Development of continuing training, labour
  market flexibility and competitiveness of public
  and private enterprises, with priority for Small
  and Medium Enterprises - Measure D2 -
  Adjustment of Public Administration
  responsabilities
• Objective 1 Measure 3.9. of Regional
  Operational Programmes
• CVT programming resources (2000-2006) 2,008
  Millions Euro (71 Ob.3, 29 Ob.1)
• Outcomes (2000-2005) Expenditure 1,093 Millions
  Euro
• Number of workers involved in training
  activities 1,075,170
• Period 2007-2013
• The new ESF is more focused than the current
  regulation. Under the 'Regional Competitiveness
  and Employment objectives, (ex Ob. 3) the ESF
  will provide support for anticipating and
  managing economic and social change. Its
  intervention will focus on increasing
  adaptability of workers and enterprises, which
  consists of greater investment in human resources
  through lifelong learning schemes, making
  qualifications and skills more accessible and
  fostering enterprise and innovation
• Decrease in total amount of ESF resources

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Further developments

• Building up a coherent, integrated and not
  competitive CVT national system
• National Observatory for CVT (representatives
  of Regional Authorities, Social Partners,
  Ministry of Labour)