Italy: first masters in labor relations in the banking industry

Following the union agreement signed on July 28th* between the ABI employers’ association and the Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL and Uilca-Uil unions on the “opportunity” to improve the competences of employees and union members in the sector, November 25 will be the first day, in the employers’ organization’s headquarters in Milan, of the first masters in “Labor Relations and Human Resources Management in Finance and Credit Firms.”  Organized by the ABI, together with the Universitas Mercatorum (the computer-based university of the Italian Chambers of Commerce) and Abiformazione (the employers’ organization’s training structure), it aims to “generate comprehensive skills in terms of labor law, planning and management of labor relations and the bargaining process” for professionals “ready to be integrated, update or redeploy their role.”  Directed to HR managers and staff managers with a college degree and to labor relations representatives and unionists without a BA, it takes four full days a month and will end in June 2013 after a minimum of 480 hours of classes and 1,020 hours of personal studies.  Training costs (€15,000 net of tax) can be completely born by the Banking and Insurance Fund (Fondo Banche Assicurazioni).
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lations representatives and unionists without a BA, it takes four full days a month and will end in June 2013 after a minimum of 480 hours of classes and 1,020 hours of personal studies. Training costs (€15,000 net of tax) can be completely born by the Banking and Insurance Fund (Fondo Banche Assicurazioni).

Program. The Master’s Degree aims to bring up “to a level of excellence the skills on labor and union law,” to “increase cooperation abilities” with professionals “who use competences and

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