Questionnaire Project ‘European Chemical Industry Social Partners Roadmap 2015-2020
1. In which way has your organisation promoted the Framework Agreement (website, social
media, press release, publications, etc.)?
Response: We have disseminated the Agreement to our member companies when it was signed.
Has this agreement become a standard approach in your country? If so, how?
Response: No
2. In how far has the Framework Agreement influenced the relationship with your social
partner at national level? Response: It had no impact.
3. Has the Framework Agreement had an impact on the VET (vocational education and
training) debate in your country? More specifically, has it fostered the definition of job
descriptions in companies? No
3.1. Has the Framework Agreement had an impact on recruiting from other EU countries?
Response: We have no feedback from companies.
3.2. What should be adapted in the training programmes in order to meet the skills profile?
Response: No suggestions
4. In case the agreement has had no impact in your country, what do you think are the
reasons?
Response: In Italy since many years a classification system exists based on:
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Description of competence profiles for every professional level where every
single job position has to be allocated;
A job description of every professional profile considered by the national
agreement. On this base the companies can create also other professional figures
for their specific needs without bargaining with inions. We asked one of our big
companies if they were interested in considering different model, including the
Framework agreement, but they hesitated citing a possible difficulties and perils
to the existing system.
5. What skills profiles would you like to add to the framework agreement? Should
improvements be made to the two skills profiles that already exist in the agreement? If
so, how?
Response: It may be useful to conduct a survey on the European level on new
professional profiles and to identify new short and/or medium term demands of
companies opposite new market requirements or reorganization, This information can
then be added to the framework agreement skills profiles. Social partners have to make
sure that new classifications are acceptable at a national level otherwise this might
hinder common European classification.
We are currently discussing the possibility both to cancel the professional figures
provided by the national agreement and to set a system based only on competence
profiles defined for each professional level with equal competence figures to guarantee
more flexible organization and to respond to the needs of multiple figures.
It might be useful at to discuss and perhaps include a medium term professional system
without description of specific professional figures at the debate on competence profiles
at the SSD.
6. What are the skills profiles that you would like to see added at intersectoral level and
inter-service level with regard to the 3 sectors in the sectoral dialogue committee?
o chemicals
o pharmaceutical
o rubber
Response: Please see point 5