Italy: the social partners concluded an agreement on apprenticeship training in SMEs

Satisfaction of the CGIL. The CGIL participated in the negotiation in order to contain the disastrous consequences of the law, that it highly criticized “for the implicit idea of the company as a training place as such” and because it enabled the regulation of apprentices’ in-plant training by agreements concluded at all levels, nationally, locally and at company level. The CGIL feels satisfied with the results of this agreement, first because of the “clear and explicit “ referral to the reference CCN and also because of the definition of the “training ability of the company” which involves the possession of human and material resources by the company such as premises separate from the productive activity.
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t training, which aims at favoring the creation of a network of apprenticeship training similar to the public system, and entrusted to the social partners’ negotiation. Consequently, the CCN will be defining the notion of « exclusive in-plant training » and will determine the annual number of hours dedicated to the « formal » training necessary for the apprentices to acquire the technical, professional and cross disciplinary basic skills. This kind of apprenticeship contract applies to all sect

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