Recognition of contributions to employers who have signed collective agreements by 06/30/2021 for the remodulation of working hours in order to organize worker skills development paths.

Recipients: Employers

• who have signed collective agreements by 06/30/2021;
• that are in compliance with the DURC.

Budget: 730 MILLION €

Deadline: Applications can be submitted by 30 June 2021.

What does it finance: The FNC reimburses the cost, including social security and welfare contributions, of the reduced working hours intended for the attendance of skills development courses by workers. Each employee will be reimbursed up to a maximum of 250 hours of training.

Collective agreement:

Collective agreements for the remodulation of working hours signed at company or local level by the comparatively most representative employers’ and workers’ associations at national level, or by their trade union representatives operating in the company.

• They must be signed by 06/30/2021
• They must include training projects aimed at developing skills with indication of:
  • number of workers involved in the intervention
  • number of hours of working time to be allocated to training courses
  • demonstration of possession of the technical, physical and professional training capacity requirements (in cases where training is provided by the company itself)
• limit of 250 hours per employee to be allocated to training
• identify the employer’s needs in terms of new or greater skills due to the introduction of organisational, technological, process or product innovations in response to the changed production needs of the company;

they can provide for the development of skills aimed at increasing the employability of the worker, also in order to promote processes of outplacement in other working realities.

Training project:

The project must highlight:

• of the ways of enhancing the wealth of skills possessed by the worker
• of the ways of personalizing the learning paths, on the basis of the input assessment the methods of transparency and certification of acquired skills

Presentation of the application:

• ANNEX 1.A (application form A)
• ANNEX 2: the list of workers involved, with an indication for each of them of the contractual level and the number of hours of reduced working hours to be allocated to skills development paths
• collective agreement
• training project
• possible delegation

The application can be sent via PEC to the address fondonuovecompetenze@pec.anpal.gov.it or via an application with which it will be necessary to access with SPID (not yet active).

Training courses: The courses must be completed within 90 days of the approval of the application. And reporting by 12/31/2021.

Grant disbursement:

Carried out by INPS in two tranches:

• 70% as an advance
• Balance