Employment training

labour policy and training policy

• Heikki Silvennoinen Turun yliopisto https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8304-0021
• Joel Kivirauma Turun yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33336/aik.96641

Abstract

The role of training as a part of labour policy is quite significant. There are 42 vocational course centres which specialise in arranging employment training. Annually, these centres train some 30 000 unemployed persons and others threatened by unemployment. On completion of the course, more one in two on the average during the past 15 years have been able to get a job. Those who have been unemployed on entering the course have been less successful in getting a job than others. Regional mobility, on the other hand, has not been realised. The position of employment training as a part of the labour policy has become fairly established. The relationship with training policy is less distinct.
The flexibility of employment training has led to the creation of "instant certificates" which soon lose their market value and do not secure jobs for their holders on the labour markets. The same flexibility also means that such a labour force is most readily transferred back to the dole. As a part of the other adult education system, employment training might be able to become liberated from the problems associated with being the lowest rung in the education system’s ladder. The position of unemployed persons will be improved only if the training provided is recognised as being equal to the corresponding certificates awarded at vocational schools. This will lead to the improvement of the status on the labour markets of employment training course students.