Training to employment and labour market

• Author: Luca Refrigeri
• Pages: 250-262

TRAINING TO EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET

Ph.D Professor Luca Refrigeri

Abstract: In the Economic European Community vocational training has not origin by

cultural reasons, as could be those to improve the training standard of the Member State people,

but by social and economic reasons; these are identify in the demands of the industrial process,

firm organization and productive process.

In analogy the training aims are not the raising of the educational standards of each

individual but the promotion of job skills to became part of labour market.

These causes and aims are indicated in the Treaty of Rome jet that established the European

Community and are finding out in all the documents and legislation until the Treaty of Maastricht

of the 1992.

Key-word: labour market, employment, education and training systems

1. The meaning of training in Treaty of Rome

In Rome in 1957 six countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and

West Germany) believing that it was important to trade freely and make it easier for goods and

services to move between Member States, signed a agreements including one called the Treaty of

Rome. This Treaty, sets out in detail the aims of the European Community.

This meant doing away with customs duties, which not only put up the prices of goods but also

delayed their transportation. They wanted to break down trading barriers so that manufacturers or

producers in one EU country could easily sell their goods and services within any one of the others.

It wasn’t only goods and services that the six felt should be allowed to move freely but people too.

It would mean that they would be able to share ideas and expertise and have a greater choice of jobs

and more opportunities for work. Above all, the founder members of the “Common Market” wanted

their governments to have common policies so that they would all plan things in similar ways. They

believed that this was particularly important in key areas of the economy, such as agriculture,

industry and trade with the rest of the world.

By signing the Treaty of Rome each of the fifteen countries agreed that they would work together to

make a common set of trading laws. Instead of having fifteen separate national rules or standards

they agreed to harmonise to create a common united market. In some instances this has meant

changing some of our national laws and some decisions, which affect our lives, are made between

the EU countries, but we have to compromise to share in the benefits of belonging to the EU. To

bring out a new law, or to change an existing one, always takes time.

The Treaty set up between the Member State a European Economic Community with the task “to

promote throughout the Community a harmonious development of economic activities, a continuous

and balanced expansion, an increase in stability, an accelerated rising of the standard of living and

closer relations between the States belonging to it.” (article 2) and “For the purposes set out in

Article 2” with the same Treaty was established that “the activities of the Community shall include,

as provided in this Treaty and in accordance with the timetable set out therein (…) i) the creation of

the European Social Found in order to improve employment opportunities for workers and to

contribute to the raising of their standard of living;”.

The aims of the vocational training in the Economic European Community are confirmed and are

more evident in the article 118 In the Title III Social policy, in the Chapter 1, Social Provision that

affirm “… the Commission shall have the task of promoting close cooperation between Member

States in the social field, particularly in matters relating to (…) basic and advanced vocational

training” These origins and aims are confirmed also in article 123 of the Chapter 2 where was set

up the European Social Fund with the explicit functions we are discuss. This affirm that “In order to

improve employment opportunities for workers in the internal market and to contribute thereby to