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Employees may participate in training schemes developed for companies or
professionals and trade unions.
Training is directed just as much towards
improving skills and qualifications as to the re-qualification of workers,
permanent adaptation to the development of professions and job content, thus
improving the skills and qualifications necessary for strengthening the
competitive situation of companies and of their employees.
Continuous training
is managed by the Tripartite Foundation for Training in Employment, which
includes representatives of the administration and the trade unions and
professional organisations.
Workers have the right to permission to participate in training and
improvement courses related to their job.
Occupational Training for Unemployed Workers
This is developed through the National Plan for Training and Employability.
Its aim is to give unemployed workers the qualifications required for the
productive system, with the goal of enabling them to find a job.
Courses are planned each year by the National Institute of Employment (INEM)
or the Autonomous Communities with this competence (Andalucía, Aragón,
Asturias, the Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile, La Mancha, Castile and León,
Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, the Balearic Islands, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia,
Navarra and Valencia) according to the training needs in the different regions
and production sectors.
This training is given directly or in Collaboration Centres (private training
companies) whose training specialities have previously been officially
authorised, as well as professional organisations or trade unions, public or
private training organisations or companies with which a collaboration agreement
has been signed, provided that the programmes are developed within their own
authorised Collaboration Centres.
The courses include a practical part, which may be carried out in classrooms or
workshops or in companies with which appropriate collaboration agreements have
been made. Work experience carried out in companies will not involve the
existence of a prior working relationship between the students and the company
and its implementation will be reported to the legal representatives of the
company's workers.
Grants and Aid
Unemployed students on these courses may have the right to various aid for
transport, food, accommodation, assistance, in this case and in others.
The grants and aid indicated in previous sections also apply to the
implementation of professional work experience in companies.
Text last edited on: 06/2005
Source: European Union
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