1st Edition
Employment, Training and Lifelong Learning Comparative Perspectives
I. INTRODUCTION
Introductory chapter: Professional training and lifelong learning as key drivers for competitiveness in the current labour market: national and international perspectives
Lourdes Mella Méndez
II. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT
Chapter 1. Towards a coordinated approach to EU policies to ‘attract talent’ and ‘upgrade skills’
Mijke Houwerzijl
Chapter 2. The legal basis for the validation of non-formal and informal learning as a route to qualifications and labour market certificates
Ernesto Villalba-García, Ilona Murphy and Manuel Souto-Otero
Chapter 3. The provision of reasonable accommodation (not only) for persons with disabilities in vocational training
Alicia Villalba Sánchez
Chapter 4. Vocational training and Labour Law: the case of apprenticeship contract and the role of companies and social partners
Giorgio Impellizzieri
III. TRAINING AND ECOLOGICAL AND DIGITAL TRANSITIONS IN THE LABOUR MARKET
Chapter 5. Using the ecological and digital transitions to restructure groups
Nicole Maggi-Germain
Chapter 6. Green skills framework: strategies for a greener world
Bárbara Torres García
Chapter 7. Enhancing remote workers’ skills - Insights from EU and Polish regulations
Irmina Miernicka
Chapter 8. Workers’ training in the virtual environment: risks and opportunities of the metaverse
Federico Pisani and Gabriella Cataldi
Chapter 9. Training and educating employees and management as a necessary element of implementing the right to disconnect at the enterprise level
Malgorzata Kurzynoga
IV. TRAINING AND LIFELONG LEARNING FROM INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AND DIFFERENT NATIONAL SCENARIOS
Chapter 10. Continuing training in the transformation: rights and obligations for employees under German individual Labour law
Till Staps
Chapter 11. Promotion of continuing training in Germany – new development in social security law and possible effects on in-company training
Christoph Tolke
Chapter 12. Middle-aged workers’ willingness of promotion and self-development of new skills in Japan, from perspective of work as a social activity
Shingou Ikeda
Chapter 13. The principle of proportionality in professional training - insights from the Portuguese case law
Duarte Abrunhosa e Sousa
Chapter 14. Training rights in Spain in the light of the ‘lifelong learning paradigm’
Silvia Fernández Martínez
Chapter 15. Legal reform for job training and lifelong learning in the United States
Jonathan Harris and Livia Lam
Chapter 16. Labour Law and lifelong learning: bridging theory and practice through triangulation
Flore Claus
Chapter 17. The right to lifelong learning: An international education perspective
Simon McGrath
Biography
Editor
Lourdes Mella Méndez is Professor of Labour and Social Security Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain.
Co-Editors
Silvia Fernández Martínez is Permanent Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain.
Bárbara Torres García is Assistant Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain.
