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Focus area
Sectoral Joint Committees are the institutional representation of social partners in issues related to training. They are set up through collective agreements or specific agreements. There are 90 Committees, each focuses on one sector.
Sectoral Committees are responsible for assessing the skills content of qualifications and the adequacy of training provision in relation to businesses’ needs in their respective sector also related to forecasting skills demands and training needs. The outputs of their skills needs identification process are sectoral reference plans (planes de referencia sectoriales), which are used to define training offered to employed workers through FUNDAE. These sectoral reference plans are also taken into account in the Catalogue of Training Specialities (Catálogo de Especialidades Formativas), managed by the Observatory of Occupations of the National PES.
Sectoral Committees are responsible for assessing the skills content of qualifications and the adequacy of training provision in relation to businesses’ needs in their respective sector also related to forecasting skills demands and training needs. The outputs of their skills needs identification process are sectoral reference plans (planes de referencia sectoriales), which are used to define training offered to employed workers through FUNDAE. These sectoral reference plans are also taken into account in the Catalogue of Training Specialities (Catálogo de Especialidades Formativas), managed by the Observatory of Occupations of the National PES.
Link
Reference/weblink
Implementation level
At what level is the initiative implemented?
National
Legal base
Legal base (E.g. Law, regulation, implementing provision, other)
The core legal base is the Law 30/2015, of 9th of September, that regulates the System of Traning for Employment in the working environment.
(Ley 30/2015, de 9 de septiembre, por la que se regula el Sistema de Formación Profesional para el empleo en el ámbito laboral).
There are other relevant legal bases, especially concerning the collaboration of Sectoral Joint Committees with other bodies of the employment and education administration.
Royal Decree 694/2017, of 3rd of July, that develops the Law 30/2015, of 9th of September, that regulates the system of professional training for employment (Real Decreto 694/2017, de 3 de julio, por el que se desarrolla la Ley 30/2015, de 9 de septiembre, por la que se regula el Sistema de Formación Profesional para el Empleo en el ámbito laboral).
FUNDAE and the National PES (SEPE) have reached reached a cooperation agreement that shapes the collaboration of Sectoral Joint Committees with SEPE (in particular with the Observatory of Occupations) (Resolución de 3 de marzo de 2021, de la Secretaría General Técnica, por la que se publica el Convenio entre el Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal y la Fundación Estatal para la formación en el empleo, como entidad colaboradora en el ámbito de la formación profesional para el empleo en el ámbito laboral.
(Ley 30/2015, de 9 de septiembre, por la que se regula el Sistema de Formación Profesional para el empleo en el ámbito laboral).
There are other relevant legal bases, especially concerning the collaboration of Sectoral Joint Committees with other bodies of the employment and education administration.
Royal Decree 694/2017, of 3rd of July, that develops the Law 30/2015, of 9th of September, that regulates the system of professional training for employment (Real Decreto 694/2017, de 3 de julio, por el que se desarrolla la Ley 30/2015, de 9 de septiembre, por la que se regula el Sistema de Formación Profesional para el Empleo en el ámbito laboral).
FUNDAE and the National PES (SEPE) have reached reached a cooperation agreement that shapes the collaboration of Sectoral Joint Committees with SEPE (in particular with the Observatory of Occupations) (Resolución de 3 de marzo de 2021, de la Secretaría General Técnica, por la que se publica el Convenio entre el Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal y la Fundación Estatal para la formación en el empleo, como entidad colaboradora en el ámbito de la formación profesional para el empleo en el ámbito laboral.
Starting period
TIMESPAN: In what year did the initiative commence?
Sectoral Joint Committees are a traditional institution of social dialogue. However their current role has been first defined by Law 30/2015, that regulates the System of Traning for Employment in the working environment.
Perspective
PERSPECTIVE: is the initiative based on evidence derived from skill forecasts or foresight activities?
Sectoral Joint
Committees are responsible for assessing the skills content of qualifications and the adequacy of training provision in relation to businesses’ needs. Information is obtained from trade unions and employers organizations that participate in the committees.
Sectoral Joint Committees are also responsible for producing sectoral analyses of changes in their sectors and for developing training reference plans (planes de referencia sectoriales).
Committees are responsible for assessing the skills content of qualifications and the adequacy of training provision in relation to businesses’ needs. Information is obtained from trade unions and employers organizations that participate in the committees.
Sectoral Joint Committees are also responsible for producing sectoral analyses of changes in their sectors and for developing training reference plans (planes de referencia sectoriales).
Policy area
To which POLICY AREAS(s) does the initiative apply?
Funding
How it is funded?
Funded by national government
Skill mismatch
Skill mismatch target
What type(s) of skills MISMATCH does the initiative aim to addresses?
Skill shortages (employers cannot fill their vacancies due to a lack of skills in the labour market)
Skill gaps (worker's skills are below the level of proficiency required by their employers and jobs)
Skills obsolescence (some or all of an individual's skills are no longer relevant to the current employer or in the labour market generally)
Skills matching focus
How does the initiative address skills mismatches?
Sectoral Joint Committees' main aim is to better define the training provided to employed workers by FUNDAE, upskilling and reskilling adults in employment.
Sectoral Joint Committees' main aim is to better define the training provided to employed workers by FUNDAE, also for unemployed workers.
Sectoral Joint Committees identify skill gaps, thus adressing sectoral and occupational skill shortages through training provided by FUNDAE.
Methods
Methods
What methods of undertaking skills assessments and / or skills anticipation does the policy instrument utilise?
Skills forecasting
Sectoral joint committees forecast future skill needs. The regulation does not specify a methodology, so each committee is responsible for selecting the approach and tools it wants to apply.
Employer surveys
Business associations participate in sectoral joint committees and might respond to surveys when asked by the committee. Nevertheless, each committee is responsible for defining the metodology to identify skill needs.
Skills foresight
Sectoral joint committees utilise skills foresight. Regulation does not specify a methodology for this. Each committee is responsible for defining this.
Expert panels
Committees are organised on a sectoral basis involving roundtables at national level to produce sectoral training reference plans.
Use of skills intelligence
How is labour market information / skills intelligence used within the initiative?
Sectoral Joint Committees contribute to shape the catalogue of training specialities (Catálogo de Especialidades Formativas), managed by the Observatory of Occupations
Sectoral Joint Committees contribute to shape the catalogue of training specialities (Catálogo de Especialidades Formativas), managed by the Observatory of Occupations, which defines training for the unemployed.
Sectoral Joint Committees contribute to shape the validation of skills obtained through working experience (Reconocimiento por la experiencia laboral).
Sectoral Joint Committees draft sectoral reference plans (planes de referencia sectoriales), which are used to define training offered to employed workers through FUNDAE
Stakeholders
Main responsible body
Main body or organisation with overall responsibility for the initiative.
National agency
The Sectoral Joint Committees are funded by the State Foundation for Training for Employment (FUNDAE).
Other involved organisations
Which other organisations have a role in the initiative?
National ministry
Sectoral Joint Committees are embedded in FUNDAE, which is participated by social partners and public sector bodies, such as National PES, Ministry of Work and Social Economy and Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Regional ministry
Regional governments participate in FUNDAE.
National agency
Sectoral Joint Committees serve to define training provided to employed workres by FUNDAE. Committees also participate in INCUAL in the identification of skills needs that in turn define the VET provision.
Social partner: employer organisation
Employer organizations participate in Sectoral Joint Committees.
Social partner: trade union
Trade unions participate in Sectoral Joint Committees.
National PES
Skills identified by Sectoral Joint Committees are used to define the catalogue of training specialities (Catálogo de Especialidades Formativas), managed by the Observatory of Occupations. Outputs of the Observatory of Occupations are taken into account by Committees.
Training Providers
Training providers should adapt their offer to sectoral reference plans (planes de referencia sectoriales), defined by Sectoral Joint Committees.
Beneficiaries
Who are the intended beneficiaries?
The work of Sectoral Committees improves the quality of VET, which is more adapted to the needs of the labour market, improving thereby the employability of the beneficiaries selected in the list below:
Adults with low basic skills
They benefit from better designed VET
Adults in employment with upskilling potential
They benefit from better designed VET
Adults in employment with reskilling potential
They benefit from better designed VET
Employed adults at risk of job displacement
They benefit from better designed VET
Minority groups in the population
They benefit from better designed VET
People with disabilities
They benefit from better designed VET
Sustainability
Success factors
SUCCESS FACTORS in the implementation
Sectoral Joint Committees are a traditional institution of social dialogue that makes use of relevant information sources to identify current and future skill gaps, such as trade unions and business associations.
Monitoring and evaluation
MONITORING and EVALUATION: Is progress measured regularly? What are the indicators used to measure progress of the policy instrument? Have any evaluations been conducted?
National PES monitors regularly the activity of Fundae. Fundae carries out evaluations of the training plans it implements.
Updates
UPDATES: whether there have been any major updates of the initiative since it has been implemented?
No
Effectiveness
EVIDENCE ON EFFECTIVENESS: How effective is the policy instrument?
National PES monitors regularly the activity of Fundae. Fundae carries out evaluations of the training plans it implements, but it does not evaluate the activity of the Commissions and the Commissions do not evaluate their effectiveness. This said, sectoral Commissions carry out many analysis and documentation and training needs and training, in collaboration with other actors, which is available in webpages. It would be useful that a common repository of this documentation could is made.
Sustainability
SUSTAINABILITY: How sustainable is the policy instrument? Do you expect the instrument to continue over the next few years and why?
Sectoral Joint Committees are part of the system for identification of skills gaps in Spain, playing a central role in the definition of training offer for employed workers through FUNDAE and playing a role in the definition of training for unemployed workers in collaboration with National PES, and of VET in collaboration with INCUAL. Sectoral Joint Committees play thus a structural role which can be regarded as permanent.
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