With a training guarantee, the federal government wants to help as many young people as possible who want to do an apprenticeship in Germany to find a suitable place.
This is what the draft for a new law to strengthen the promotion of training and further education by Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil (SPD), which the federal cabinet passed, provides.
Training positions in companies should also have priority. A mobility bonus is intended to make it easier for young people to accept training places in more distant regions. Young people who have not yet made their choice of career should be able to receive support through an internship for career orientation.
entitlement to off-the-job training
An entitlement to off-the-job training is also to be newly created, so that young people without a regular training place will also have the appropriate prospects. “Vocational training in external facilities should be used as a supplement where necessary, but remains the ‘ultima ratio’,” according to the draft, i.e. the last resort.
The Further Education Act also provides, among other things, for a qualification allowance. Employees in companies undergoing structural change should be able to be released for further training. They should then be able to get a qualification allowance from the Federal Employment Agency as wage replacement. The promotion of further training for employees is also to be simplified. The aim of the planned steps is for employees to receive further training in a targeted manner during their working life in view of the changes in companies and the increasing shortage of skilled workers.
For the time being, however, the training period announced by Labor Minister Heil based on the Austrian model is not to be implemented. In the future, employees should be able to continue their education for a year with pay. Now the introduction of a training period is to take place at a later date, as it was said.
