Second vice president and Acting Minister of Labor Yolanda Díaz announced that she will submit a proposal to the European Commission this Thursday. A legislative proposal that will ensure that vocational training becomes the subjective right of citizens. So, each of them can request it and request them to book it from their company, among others. part of the working days to be able to study or take classes. and improve your skills. This was announced by Díaz this Thursday in Barcelona at a conference with other Union Labor Ministers within the framework of the Spanish presidency of the European Council.
“We want to turn education into a right. […] “We must escape from the approaches made in our country and in other states of Europe,” Díaz said. “[La formación] “This is not just about youth or people finding themselves facing a dramatic unemployment situation,” he added.
Currently, all employees contribute a portion of their salary each month to fill a piggy bank that companies can then use for a range of subsidized training courses. Especially according to the data of the State Employment Training Foundation (Fundae), this year 1.047 million euro loan It can be used by companies to provide training to their staff. One of the main problems is that not all of this credit is spent during the year, and most employees who attend the courses do so outside working hours and at the expense of their free time. increase your productivity.
“Guarantee factor”
The intention of the current Minister of Labor is to preserve access to education as a subjective right, similar to, for example, the right of those currently unemployed to seek advice from public employment services. The state cannot deny them, and Díaz claims that employees who are active in terms of training hours can do the same in their companies. “We are making a presentation guarantee factor“, he defended together with the Belgian and Swedish Labor Ministers.
States within the Union now need to agree on the conditions under which such training will be carried out “both within and outside the working day” and whether this training will be “in the form of permits or licences”, as stated by the Labor Party. This is a statement. Moreover form of “economic compensation or compensation” The training that trainees will receive, as well as “the improvement and simplification of national systems for the accreditation, certification, validation and homologation of skills acquired in other Member States, and the role of collective agreements in articulating and developing these rules”.
“We have two big deficits in Spain. On the one hand, many overqualified people That’s why we have people expelled from the labor market and vice versa. […] “We want to compete with high-skilled workers, not ‘low-cost’ workers,” Díaz argued.