Section 3: Support for training initiatives to help employees adapt.

In order to encourage employees to adapt to changes in employment within the company, particularly those with social characteristics that expose them more particularly to the consequences of economic change, company agreements giving entitlement to State aid, concluded within the framework of a branch agreement or a national, regional or local professional agreement on employment, may provide for the implementation of long-term training initiatives. These agreements may extend the benefit…

Companies without trade union representatives benefit from State aid when they apply a branch agreement or a professional agreement on employment which provides for this possibility and determines the procedures for its direct application. The aid is granted on the advice of the social and economic committee, if one exists.