Presented to the Council of Ministers today, Wednesday, January 22, 2014, the Vocational Training Act should be adopted by the end of March and come into force as early as January 2015. This is a tight schedule for an ample text that notably creates a new training right for employees. Here are the key elements.
A ‘high-speed’ law: this is how the government itself qualified the law’s path, which will only take a few months between the start of the negotiations with the social partners (which led to a national cross-industry agreement on December 14) and the passing of the law, expected at the end of March.
First goal for the government: make vocational training more easily accessible to jobseekers and low-skilled workers, a weapon considered as key to combat unemployment. The legislative measures contain a flagship element, the ‘Personal Training Account.’
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