Germany: vote on draft legislation to train employees for the ‘work of tomorrow’

On Thursday, 23 April, Germany’s Bundestag passed the ‘Bill for the Promotion of Vocational Training during Structural Transition and for the Development of Training Support,’ or more concisely the ‘Bill for the Work of Tomorrow’ (Arbeit-von-morgen-Gesetz). The text, which comes into force following Bundesrat adoption (probably 15 May), is designed to support company training efforts as businesses seek to meet the need to adapt employee knowledge and know-how to the conditions of tomorrow's world of work and production, by improving public funding to support reskilling and requalification.
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So that today’s employees can work tomorrow. The draft legislation was officially announced in September 2019, began its parliamentary journey in early 2020, and evidences a continued strengthening of existing measures and training schemes in the face of the upheavals affecting the world of work. “Even without taking into account the current coronavirus crisis, we are living in times of disruptions to the world of work, whether through digitalization and the automation of the economy, or via th

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