Funded training, inter-professional funds and bilateral bodies
Contributions to inter-professional funds and bilateral bodies are due under the applicable collective agreement. The point is a different one: in most cases nothing comes back in return, neither for the company nor for its employees. Our job is to make that return real.
What we did
- Review of the contributions paid to inter-professional funds and bilateral bodies
- Assessment of what the company and its employees can obtain in return, body by body
- Structured agreements with the bilateral bodies ELAV and EBIGEST
- Choice of the fund best suited to the sector and size of the business
- Training needs analysis and design of the plan
- Submission of the application and management of relations with the fund
- Course delivery through accredited providers with whom we have structured agreements
- Reporting of activities and handling of audits
Four steps, no grey areas
- 1
Review
We establish which funds and bilateral bodies the company pays into, and what it can obtain.
- 2
Design
We build the training plan around real needs, not a generic catalogue.
- 3
Submission
We handle the application, documentation and relations with the fund and the provider.
- 4
Reporting
We follow registers, expenditure and audits through to closure of the plan.
Frequently asked questions
- What does it cost the company?
- In most cases the training is covered by the resources already accrued with the fund. The actual cost must still be assessed plan by plan, and the preliminary check is at our expense: if there isn't enough capacity, we say so immediately.
- What do bilateral bodies have to do with it?
- Collective agreements provide for contributions to bilateral bodies which, in exchange, make benefits available to the company and its employees: training, income support, welfare, reimbursements. They are largely unused, because nobody claims them. We check body by body what is due and start the procedures: we have structured agreements with ELAV and EBIGEST.
- Do employees benefit too?
- Yes, and that is the point that interests us most. A training plan upskills the workforce, and bilateral benefits can translate into direct support and reimbursements for employees. A contribution that so far produced nothing becomes an advantage for both sides of the employment relationship.
- Who actually delivers the courses?
- Providers accredited with the funds, with whom we have structured and ongoing agreements. We are not an accredited body and we do not claim to be: we handle the design, administration and reporting — the parts where plans most often stall.