IT TEXTILE TRAINING IN PORTUGAL PRAISED BY EUROPEAN COMMISSION
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has hailed as a model a Portuguese scheme that retrained 1,700 unemployed workers in computer, Internet and telecommunications skills after losing jobs from the country's textile and clothing sector.
Vladimir Spidla, the European Union's (EU) social affars Commissioner praised the system at a conference staged near Porto by CITEVE, a private high-technology textiles and clothing group. The scheme was designed to help 10% of these ex-workers find employment by 2009, but already 40% have been reemployed.
Spidla said: ...
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