Tripartite Foundation for On-the-job Training

Fundación Tripartita para la Formación en el Empleo
(Tripartite Foundation for On-the-jobTraining)
http://www.fundaciontripartita.org

The Spanish Tripartite Foundation for On-the-job Training (Fundación Tripartita para la Formación en el Empleo) is the public body in charge of continuing training.

The Spanish Social Security requires that 0.7% of salary be devoted to funding continuing training activities: employers contribute 0.6% and workers the remaining 0.1%. It has to be mentioned that 0.35% is targeted at training unemployed people while the remaining 0.35% focuses on training initiatives for all employees, including fixed-term contract workers but not temporary agency workers.

Concerning temporary agency workers, the legal framework regulating their training measures is mainly composed of the following:

• Law 14/1994, of 1 June 1994, on Temporary Work Agencies (Ley de Empresas de Trabajo Temporal), which was later modified by Law 29/1999, of 16 July 1999 (Ley de Modificación de la Ley 14/1994).

• National Collective Agreements of Temporary Work Agencies (Convenio Colectivo Estatal de Empresas de Trabajo Temporal). The Fourth Agreement, signed on 14 April 2004 is currently in force, until 31 December 2005.

Article 12.2 of Law 14/1994 states that temporary work agencies have to build a compulsory reserve of 1% of salary for investment in training activities of those workers who are put at the disposal of the client enterprises. Since the Third National Collective Agreement of Temporary Work Agencies, of 19 October 2000, an additional 0.25% is recommended, aimed at training on labour health and prevention of labour risks. However, this is not compulsory.

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The National Agreement of Continuing Vocational Training, signed in 1992 and renewed in 1996, regulates and establishes a technical and organizational structure of the Subsystem of Continuous Training.

The institutions that signed the agreement (CEOE, CEPYME, CC.OO, UGT and CIG) constituted in May 1993 the Foundation for Continuing Vocational Training (FORCEM).

The main functions of FORCEM were to promote and disseminate continuing training among workers and enterprises and to manage aids to continuous training, follow up and technical control.

This agreement established that the basic roles of Continuous Training are:

Permanent adaptation to the evolution of professions and the contents of the posts and, therefore, improvement of competencies and qualifications required increasing competitiveness of enterprises and their personnel.
Social promotion that allow workers to avoid stagnation in their occupational qualifications and to improve their situation.
Prevention of possible negative consequences of the internal European market and of difficulties that sectors and enterprises in the process of economic and technological reestructuration might face.

The III Agreement for Continuous Training creates the Tripartite Commission for Continuous Training with the attribution, among others, of following up new agreements. The Tripartite Foundation for On-the-job Training has take the place of the FORCEM.

Agreement on Vocational Training for employment.
Agreement signed by the Government and the social partners, in the frame of the Social Dialogue, in February, 2006

Tripartite Foundation for On-the-job Training.
Information and communication technologies applied to continuing training.
Madrid: European Social Fund; INEM, 2005. 262p