La riforma dell'apprendistato: ruolo del consulente del lavoro nella promozione dell'istituto

During the last years the topics regarding economic growth and employment’s increase have been at the center of political and institutional discussion. In that contest, all the new laws that has been issued from different governments was concentrated on the apprenticeship contract that has been defined, more times, as the main instrument for young people to access the labour market. With the purpose of relaunch that institute, in 2011 it has been issued the new “Testo Unico dell’Apprendistato” (D.lgs. n. 167/2011), with the aim of improve the complexity on reference legislations and the excessive bureaucracy that had oppressed that institute in the last years. It is necessary to consider that the diffusion of apprenticeship is not only linked to legal instruments, but mostly to the commitment of all those who daily work in the labor market. This document deals with the contribution that a labor consultant could make as link between labour market, companies and their workers. This document shows the instruments that a labor consultant has in order to manage the training aspect of the apprenticeship contract. The analysis is both normative (temporal criteria reconstruction and benchmarking criteria of the current law apprenticeship professionalized and higher education and research, labor cost analysis) and empirical (through an analysis aimed at aimed at understanding as the apprenticeship contract is perceived by labor consultants, companies and apprentices). The thesis shows the role of the labor consultant on the promotion and diffusion of the apprenticeship as contract made to enter professional figures that meet companies requests and drivers of innovation and competitiveness.