Apprendistato negli studi professionali: problemi e prospettive alla luce delle disposizioni contenute nel ccnl di settore

The apprenticeship represents an excellent opportunity for young people to develop knowledge and skills of the highest level towards a better match between labour demand and supply; this because apprenticeship represents a strategic tool for competitiveness of enterprises and for a better allocation of human resources in the labor market. However, the problem that has always presented for this issue is the lack of investment that employers, regions and social partners have made during the time. Nevertheless there are good examples of innovative interventions, such as the “Ccnl for the employers of the Studi professionali”, concluded between Confprofessioni, Filcams, Fisascat, Uiltucs, on 29 November 2011. This CCNL contemplates four types of training (apprendistato per la qualifica e il diploma professionale, apprendistato professionalizzante, alto apprendistato, apprendistato per il praticantato). The research, therefore, provides the Italian legal framework for apprenticeship, and it is based on a comparative methodological approach, which analyzes the existing discipline of apprenticeship in the best performing countries, such as Germany, France and England. The target is to point out the strengths and analyze, then, the system of collective regulation of professions present in these countries. The paper, in conclusion, deepens discipline of apprenticeship contract, introduced in the field of professional studies, examines the scope of application to understand the utilization of this tool and the characteristics that it has. The objective is, therefore, to update the knowledge of the institution of apprenticeship in the professional world, even in comparative perspective, and understand the ways in which, in our system, can be exploited its potentiality