employer-based training [ employer-led training ]

training without supervision [ non-supervised training ]

employers'participation in financing continuous vocational training

68. Stresses that skills development, if carried out as an integrated concept, could become a mechanism leading to and promoting equal opportunities for people from disadvantaged groups, including disadvantaged minorities, in particular for children and young people from families affected by poverty, the long-term unemployed, disadvantaged immigrants and people with disabilities; stresses that prevention and lifelong support and counselling from the earliest stage possible for disadvantaged groups are of the utmost importance for providing productive and highly-skilled workforce for the labour market; stresses, furthermore, the need to provide support and skills development via training for employers ...[+++], recruiters and human resource managers to support the inclusion of disadvantaged groups into the labour market; stresses that, in order for the most disadvantaged to be included, appropriate training must be provided for employers, human resource teams and teachers, in order to support the most disadvantaged in society in the best possible way so as to make their integration as effective as possible; reiterates the importance of universal access to education for all;

69. Stresses that skills development, if carried out as an integrated concept, could become a mechanism leading to and promoting equal opportunities for people from disadvantaged groups, including disadvantaged minorities, in particular for children and young people from families affected by poverty, the long-term unemployed, disadvantaged immigrants and people with disabilities; stresses that prevention and lifelong support and counselling from the earliest stage possible for disadvantaged groups are of the utmost importance for providing productive and highly-skilled workforce for the labour market; stresses, furthermore, the need to provide support and skills development via training for employers ...[+++], recruiters and human resource managers to support the inclusion of disadvantaged groups into the labour market; stresses that, in order for the most disadvantaged to be included, appropriate training must be provided for employers, human resource teams and teachers, in order to support the most disadvantaged in society in the best possible way so as to make their integration as effective as possible; reiterates the importance of universal access to education for all;

Mechanisms to share the financial burden of training between employers, such as sectoral training funds, need to be applied more widely.

32. Stresses that, of the active labour market policies, only training has a significant impact on aggregate labour market outcomes; points to the need for the ESF to continue to give top priority to training adapted to the specific needs of each Member State and its concern that the earmarking of the structural funds for the Lisbon strategy will shift money from training actions to other active labour market policies; insists that the percentage of workers in training actions is still too low and private business has not contributed enough to training promotion; asks employers to give top priority to training and create the condition ...[+++]s for on-workplace training; considers that training hours should be considered as working time;