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Password: refresher course. Italy decided to "update" the labour market making training compulsory for all professionals. From the 1st of January 2014 a new legislation entered to force changing the traditional way of working. The idea was not bad at all: thanks to refresher courses Italian workers will be more well prepared and more competitive. What has not been said is this innovation would risk to create a boomerang effect. In Italy skilled workers find to diffulties to get a job because of the high profile they have: employers can't or don't want to invest in well trained people because of the high cost. In theory more a person is prepared more has to be paid, but reality is other business so employers will always look for costs reductions in order to increase earnings. Italy has a strange behaviour by which employers don't want to pay professionals in a proper way. That means normally professionals are underpaid, and that for a very simple reason: the alternative is unemployment. So, what about now? What is good and right in the intentions of the legislator, is something highly counter-productive.
Just to be clear (I can say that 'cause it happened to me): Italy is a country where a professional journalist with a good job experience, a degree, knowledge of three foreign languages, two years working abroad as correspondent, a good knoledge of new social media, the European Computer Driving License, don't get contracts. Italy is a country where that kind of professional we just talked about are said: «Yeah, we could need you. We could give some money , I think no more than 300 euros per month, for making video. Do you have a video camera, don't you?». Now, if I told to you «I want to fuck. Do you have a wife, don't you?» wouldn't you find such a request nice? I really guess not. Trying to summarize it has to be kept in mind employers don't want to invest on professionals and they want to pay them as less as they can, professionals (self)trained and well prepared can't find a proper remuneration and that makes refresher courses useless. So, maybe, before imposing counter-productive refresher courses it woul be better to be sure the labour market works, otherwise even the best idea ever is an end to itself.
Just to be clear (I can say that 'cause it happened to me): Italy is a country where a professional journalist with a good job experience, a degree, knowledge of three foreign languages, two years working abroad as correspondent, a good knoledge of new social media, the European Computer Driving License, don't get contracts. Italy is a country where that kind of professional we just talked about are said: «Yeah, we could need you. We could give some money , I think no more than 300 euros per month, for making video. Do you have a video camera, don't you?». Now, if I told to you «I want to fuck. Do you have a wife, don't you?» wouldn't you find such a request nice? I really guess not. Trying to summarize it has to be kept in mind employers don't want to invest on professionals and they want to pay them as less as they can, professionals (self)trained and well prepared can't find a proper remuneration and that makes refresher courses useless. So, maybe, before imposing counter-productive refresher courses it woul be better to be sure the labour market works, otherwise even the best idea ever is an end to itself.
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