Kształcenie dorosłych w Niemczech w zakresie działania Federalnego Urzędu Pracy

Abstract

The Federal Employment Bureau is not directly involved in professional training but it supports such training with its subsidies. It supports professional training through provision of information, counselling, funds (covering costs of training), subsistence and adaptation alowances. The assistance of the Federal Employment Bureau in the field of professional training covers both unemployed and employed persons, qualified and unqualified work force, persons with high job prospects and those encountering difficulties on the labour market. However, the main emphasis has been placed on groups of people especially threatened on the labour market, and particularly on jobless persons, those directly threatened by unemployment, and unqualified persons, i.e. potentially threatened. The article analyzes various types of assistance making allowances for specific problems existing on the labour market in „old” and „new” federal lands. The performed analysis aimed at presenting professional training as an instrument of the employment policy in The Federal Republic oF Germany.