On March 20, Fátima Báñez, Spain’s Minister for Labor presented her reform over occupational training. The decree-law, adopted after more than a year of fruitless negotiations with unions and employers, attempts to address a recent series of scandals and fraudulent activity hitting especially Andalusia and Madrid. The new system aims to improve controls over and efficiencies within occupational training (for both those in employment and those looking for employment). A new individual training account will be put in place for each worker and the social partners will no longer manage State subsidized training.
The reform went through royal decree and comes into immediate force, although further parliamentary debate and amendments are possible. The social partners have opposed the Labor Minister’s revised training model that takes control away from them in terms of their use of State subsidies for the design, organization, management , and administration of the training modules.
Curbs over the role of social partners’. The Labor Minister has decided to limit their role in occupational training.
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