. Despite a rise in the number of training firms, budgets for both formal and informal training were revised downwards in 2009 …. In all, firms devoted 1.63 p.c. of staff costs to training their workers, compared with 1.72 p.c. a year earlier, a …, except where informal training was concerned. …

discernible in terms of hourly costs, depending on the size and branch of activity of the companies. In terms of training, the … results for 2006 still fall well short of the set targets : training costs accounted for 1.17 p.c. of the total wage bill … in training was only 35.2 p.c. whereas a target has been set of 50 p.c. by 2010. Growth was nevertheless recorded between …

the latter, hourly labour costs are weaker in Wallonia than in the two other regions. Performance in the field of training … employee participation rate. The first indicator, that is, the training budget as a percentage of staff costs, was estimated at … 1.2 p.c. in 2006. There was a further but small increase in the rate of employee participation in training : only 36.4 p …

breakdown of staff numbers by educational level. On average, women tend to have a more intensive level of training than men …. Workers’ educational requirements vary considerably according to the branch of activity. Since the year 2008, training … activities have been broken down between formal and informal vocational training and initial training, whereas before only formal …

2010, firms invested more in formal and informal training for their workers, who also participated in such training in … training (alternating study and work experience) – which remains marginal. Firms operating in more than one Region are … considerably larger than the average and proportionately more numerous to report training activities in their social balance sheet …