The State Public Employment Service (SEPE) published the resolution of 15 April 2020, which establishes extraordinary measures to deal with the impact of COVID-19 on vocational training for employment in the workplace.
Average workforce of the beneficiary company
- To benefit from the provisions of this resolution, the beneficiary companies must maintain, at least, the average workforce of the last 6 months prior to the declaration of the state of alarm, during the period of execution of the face-to-face training actions through a virtual classroom. For these purposes, workers who have been affected by temporary employment regulation files (ERTEs) will be counted as staff.
Face-to-face training can be carried out through the Virtual Classroom
- Suspended training actions or groups initiated previously whose delivery modality was face-to-face or mixed, may continue to be carried out in the communicated modality using the virtual classroom as face-to-face training.
- New actions or training groups may also be initiated during the state of alarm in face-to-face or mixed modalities using the virtual classroom as face-to-face training.
- A virtual classroom is considered to be the learning environment where the tutor-trainer and students interact, concurrently and in real time, through a synchronous telematic communication system that allows a process of knowledge exchange to be carried out in order to enable the learning of the people who participate in the classroom.
- The virtual classroom will allow for synchronised connectivity between the trainers and the participating students, as well as bidirectional communications.
- It must have a record of connections generated by the virtual classroom application in which the participants in the classroom are identified, for each training action carried out through this means, as well as their dates and times of connection.
- It will allow the connectionduring the time of the classroom by the control bodies, for the purposes of monitoring and control actions.
- The cost of the module applicable to a face-to-face training action that is taught through a virtual classroom will be maintained for the total number of hours of said action.
Communication of the start and modifications
- Communications of the start of the training may be made up to two days before the start date of each group.
- The cancellation or modification of the data of an action or training group must be communicated, in any case, one day before the date scheduled for its start.
In the near future we will hold a free and informative webinar to clarify doubts about the use of the virtual classroom and other aspects of the aforementioned resolution.
Click here to see the Resolution of 15 April 2020, of the State Public Employment Service, which establishes, in its scope of management, extraordinary measures to deal with the impact of COVID-19 on vocational training for employment in the workplace.