I propose to amend the legislation on the recruitment and employment contracts of education professionals.
The Regulations on the Professional Examination of Education and Training Professionals lay down the conditions for taking the professional examination, namely that anyone who has first worked in a kindergarten or school for 4 or 6 months may apply. On the other hand, Article 92 of the Law on the Organisation and Financing of Education and Training (LOFVI) stipulates, among other things, that in order to occupy a post, a professional examination must be passed.
This leads to a situation where candidates want to take the professional examination but cannot, due to legal restrictions, because they cannot apply for vacant posts without the examination. The only option is to do a voluntary traineeship, which is advertised twice a year and receives on average 500% more applicants than the number of places available.
This leads to situations where candidates are not able to compete on the labour market after completing their studies because they do not meet the legal requirements, which in most cases they simply cannot meet.
There are also situations where a vacancy is advertised for someone who has a professional qualification but does not have the qualities of someone who does not have a professional qualification, and the employer has to recruit the first person to fill the vacancy.
This is a controversial situation, because the law, in an area where we are dealing with a sensitive group of people, restricts employers from selecting suitable candidates, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the candidates themselves from being able to complete their training in the normal way and thus compete on the labour market.
There is a very simple solution to this situation - professionals could be given the opportunity to take the professional examination in the first year of their employment.