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Chamber of Fashion and Ministry of Labor together to promote training and skills

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It is called «The good work», which is a beautiful name for a memorandum of understanding, whatever the “enemies” of do-gooders might say. The document has just been signed in Milan by the president of the National Chamber of Fashion Carlo Capasa (top right) and from Minister for Labor and Social Policies Andrea Orlando. Cristina Tajani presented and commented on the agreement, councilor for fashion in the municipal councils led by Giuliano Pisapia and during the first term of Beppe Sala and today advisor to the Ministry of Labor. An important trait d’union, because Milan is the Italian (we could say European) capital of fashion and because Cristina Tajani was, together and with the support of the mayors Pisapia and Sala, an architect of the collaborations and partnerships between the Municipality of Milan and the Chamber of fashion for many years.

What the protocol provides

In the next five years the textile-fashion-accessories (TMA) sector will need 40 thousand professionals trained on new digital skills. For this reason, the agreement provides for the launch of regional programs, also by drawing on the tools and resources provided by the NRP, to favor virtuous paths of transfer of skills and retraining of employees, aimed at maintaining employment levels in companies. In addition, professional training programs will be promoted in companies, protecting the worker’s right to continuous training. In order to monitor and guide the execution of the protocol, the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies and the Chamber of Fashion have set up a stable work group which will report annually the results produced by the interventions carried out.

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The representative role of the Chamber of Fashion

Carlo Capasa recalled that the big brands “are the drivers that, through production, communication and marketing, allow products, made with the essential participation of many Italian SMEs, to reach customers all over the world“. Only the first 16 brands of the association – which organizes, among many things, the four Milan fashion weeks – represent 32% of the total turnover of the Italian fashion industry. «The protocol signed today marks an important recognition of our sector as a strategic supply chain for the relaunch of the country – added Capasa -. Skills and their enhancement have always been the engine of our made in Italy. And in this sense, the protocol promotes policies that support the transfer of know-how and provides incentives to support training programs for upskilling and reskilling of workers. With the utmost commitment in this direction by the members of the Chamber of Fashion ».

The issue of generational change

The protocol is also important because it addresses a crucial issue for the TMA and for many other sectors of the Italian economy, manufacturing and beyond, that of generation replacement and the transmission of know-how. “Our industry too – recalled Capasa – suffers from the lack of a generational change, but more than in other sectors we fear that this could facilitate the dispersion of essential skills along the entire production chain. For this reason, the agreement prepares a support program to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills between those who leave the company due to the age limit and the young new hires ».

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