VOCATIONAL TRAINING
The primary source of law for the area of vocational training is Act
LXXVI of 1993 on Vocational training, which defines vocational secondary
schools, skilled worker training schools, trade schools and special trade
schools as vocational training institutions (3).
However, the enumerated institutions are also public educational institutions
covered by the scope of the Act on Public Education and of MKM Decree
11/1994 (VI. 8.) of the Minister of Culture and Education on the operation
of educational and training institutions. Those complaints received from
institutions within the scope of the Act on Vocational training that protested
against the infringement of public educational rights has been discussed
in the previous chapter. A consequence of this fact might be that the
number of cases of purely vocational training type is the lowest among
the complaints received by our Office.
We regard cases as such only if we were contacted with the infringement
of a right provided for in legislation on vocational training. These pieces
of legislation regulate certain issues differently from the Act on Public
Education and contain provisions governing vocational training only.
A purely vocational training issue is the method of fulfilling the vocational
training contribution obligation.
| The principal of a vocational
secondary school contacted our Office because they protested that,
contrary to previous practices, a private limited company refused
its financial support to the school for the last two years. Pursuant
to Act LXXVII of 1996 on Vocational training contributions and on
supporting the development of vocational training, and also to Paragraph
(1) of Article 2 of Act LI of 2001 adopted recently and entered
into force on July 1st, 2001, the private limited company is obliged
to ensure a vocational training contribution. This obligation may
be fulfilled in different ways, one being the provision of so-called
development support for the vocational training school under an
agreement on co-operation, as was done previously with respect to
the school of the complainant. If, however, there is no agreement
on co-operation or a contract for support regulated in OM Decree
17/1999 (IV. 2.) of the Minister of Health Care between the school
and the private limited company in effect, then it is at the discretion
of the limited company to provide development support as a reduction
in its contribution obligation. It is also within the powers of
the private limited company to determine when and which educational
institution it wishes to support from its vocational training contribution.
Since the school has no subjective right with respect to the receiving
of development support, the private limited company did not infringe
any rights. (K-OJOG-395/2001) |
(3) This is a list limited to institutions covered
by the scope of authority of the Minister of Education.
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