Employment, Training and Lifelong Learning : Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)

I. INTRODUCTION? ?Introductory chapter: Professional training and lifelong learning as key drivers for competitiveness in the current labour market: national and international perspectives? ?II. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT? ?Chapter 1. Towards a coordinated approach to EU policies to ‘attract talent’ and ‘upgrade skills’? ?Chapter 2. The legal basis for the validation of non-formal and informal learning as a route to qualifications and labour market certificates? ?Chapter 3. The provision of reasonable accommodation (not only) for persons with disabilities in vocational training? ?Chapter 4. Vocational training and Labour Law: the case of apprenticeship contract and the role of companies and social partners? ?III. TRAINING AND ECOLOGICAL AND DIGITAL TRANSITIONS IN THE LABOUR MARKET? ?Chapter 5. Using the ecological and digital transitions to restructure groups? ?Chapter 6. Green skills framework: strategies for a greener world? ?Chapter 7. Enhancing remote workers’ skills - Insights from EU and Polish regulations? ?Chapter 8. Workers’ training in the virtual environment: risks and opportunities of the metaverse? ?Chapter 9. Training and educating employees and management as a necessary element of implementing the right to disconnect at the enterprise level? ?IV. TRAINING AND LIFELONG LEARNING FROM INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AND DIFFERENT NATIONAL SCENARIOS? ?Chapter 10. Continuing training in the transformation: rights and obligations for employees under German individual Labour law? ?Chapter 11. Promotion of continuing training in Germany ? new development in social security law and possible effects on in-company training? ?Chapter 12. Middle-aged workers’ willingness of promotion and self-development of new skills in Japan, from perspective of work as a social activity? ?Chapter 13. The principle of proportionality in professional training - insights from the Portuguese case law? ?Chapter 14. Training rights in Spain in the light of the ‘lifelong learning paradigm’? ?Chapter 15. Legal reform for job training and lifelong learning in the United States? ?Chapter 16. Labour Law and lifelong learning: bridging theory and practice through triangulation? ?Chapter 17. The right to lifelong learning: An international education perspective