Vocational Training and Employment Relationship: Insights from the Italian Legal System

Abstract

This contribution addresses the strategic role of employees’ training in the actual socio-economic context. Adopting the perspective of the individual employment contract and the evolution of the parties’ interests, it points out that training is one of the main common interests on which mutual expectations of employers and employees can converge. Analysing the protection of training within the Italian legal system and industrial relations is necessary to assess whether a sufficient legal foundation exists to consider training as an integral part of the employment contract structure.