In an interview granted to the Berliner Zeitung (12.06) , Annette Schavan, Minister of Education, announces that she will propose very soon a new batch of measures in order to make the access to the professional training easier for the youth : « The aim of this initiative is to convince companies that don’t train ». Indeed, currently only 23% of the companies offer training jobs : « We especially have to help the SMEs to say yes to apprenticeship », points out the Minister who would like to suppress the exam taxes, negociate with the trade unions the cut in compensations paid to the apprentices or else, for the smaller companies, suppress the obligation to count the apprentice among the staff, an obligation that swells the workforce and sometimes forces the employer to create a works council.
Germany : the apprenticeship jobs’ deficit reaches 50 000
The Federal Government's last figures report a deficit bigger than forecasted in the apprenticeship field. Annette Schavan, Minister of Education , announces a batch of concrete measures to make the creation of new jobs easier and appeals the companies to train more. (Ref. 06594)
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