Greetings from the Czech Republic

1. Greetings from the Czech Republic

2. Restructuring – EU Accession UPDATED NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF THE CZECH STEEL INDUSTRYRESTRUCTURING (Final Version) • Summarised content of documents concerning restructuring of the Czech steel industry and the present state of the restructuring • Prague, December 2002 • Approved by the Czech Government and the European Commission

3. Employees in Czech Steel Industry

4. SSC of metallurgy and foundry industry • established on 18th June 2007 • 10 members with voting rights • SSC‘s Chairman – RNDr. Jaroslav Raab • covered areas of SSC – metallurgy, foundry industry, metal forming • institutions represented in SSC: • The Czech & Slovak Steel Federation • Association of Foundries of the Czech Republic • Czech Nonferrous Metal Industry Association • Czech Forging Association • Czech Foundry Association • Třinecké železárny, Inc. • Arcelor Mittal Ostrava, Inc.

5. What is the Sector Skills Council (SSC)? • Tool of employers for presenting and promoting sector interests in HR to state administration and educational institutions • The Sector Skills Council associates representatives of employers, professional organizations, labour unions, educational organizations and other experts on human resources in their particular sector; its main goal is to represent the sector in the question of human resources development (HRD)

6. SSC of metallurgy and foundry industry • summary of outcomes of the SSC´s activities during realization of the National System of Occupations • creation and actualization of 68 occupations and typal positions • review of 9 qualification and assessment standards of partial qualifications • main priority of the sector is to improve flexibility and speed to react on needs of the Labour market and employers´requirements • development of cooperation with other SSCs from related sectors will be essential in the future

7. Steel Industry Chomutov Kladno Bohumín Karviná Králův Dvůr Ostrava Hrádek u Rokycan Plzeň Frýdek–Místek Třinec Žďár n.S. Prostějov Veselí n.M. primary production secondary production

8. Czech Steel Industry • Production 6.5 mil. t • BOF / EAF 90 / 10 • Long / Flat products 65 / 35 • Seamless / Welded tubes 60 / 40 • CC steel / Ingots / Liquid steel 88 / 9 / 3 • Imports 5.8 mil. t • Exports 5.4 mil. t

9. History of Czech & Slovak Steel Industry • 17th Century - Iron Works – Sobotín, Zbiroh, Janovice • 1717 Bergschule in Joachimstal • 1725 High School in Banská Štiavnica • 1762 Montane Academy in Banská Štiavnica • 1828 Ostrava Vítkovice – EVRAZ Vítkovice Steel • 1839 Třinec – Třinecké železárny • 1849 Technical University Příbram / Ostrava (1945) • 1952 Nová huť – ArcelorMittal Ostrava

10. Challenges for the Branch • Generation exchange • Image of the technical jobs • Specification of shortage of professions • Respecting the regional aspects • Co-operation with the schools on all levels • Co-operation with the municipal, regional, and state authorities • Conferences with the outputs • One of the outputs is the Sector Council • Promotion through media

11. Main role of the SSCs within the National System of Occupations • to revise structure and content of occupations and typal positions in a particular sector • to cooperate on the optimisation of competences related to occupations and typal positions (typical jobs) • to review qualification and assessment standards of complete and partial qualifications, and to suggest partial qualifications for the National Register of Qualifications • to cooperate with Authorising bodies within the realization of the Act No. 179 of 30 March 2006 on Verification and Recognition of Further Education Results

12. SSCs´role Sector Skills Councils Main tasks of SSCs NSO NRQ Typal position Occupation CQ (Complete Qualification) PQ (Partial Qualification) Smallerwork units QS AS QS AS Act No. 179/2006 Coll.

13. Future Trends on HR Markets • The entire lack of graduates in technical courses (increasing demand – industrial development of the region) • Experts brain-draining • The increase of labor turnover • Intensive talent searching at Universities • Recruiting of foreign employees (Poland, Slovakia, in consequence Ukraine etc.) • The need for employees with competency in the field of new technologies (innovation urgency) • Increasing demands on wage valuation and bonuses

14. Future of SSCs and priority tasks • key activities of SSCs - to monitor the structure of occupations and typal positions on the Labour Market, and to describe work units for needs of the NSO • to develop existing structure of qualifications in the sector, to initiate creation of new qualifications, and to cooperate on the creation of new qualification and assessment standards • to cooperate with Authorising bodies and Authorised Persons within the realization of the Act No. 179 of 30 March 2006 on Verification and Recognition of Further Education Results

15. Future of SSCs and new activities • improvement of mechanisms used to transfer requirement of the Labour Market to the system of qualifications and vocational education (connection to Framework Educational Programmes, etc.) • improvement of authorisation mechanisms and processes of qualification validation, including the QMS • participation in theprocesses of qualification validation • preparation and realization of Sector agreements (identification of qualitative and quantitative deficiencies in HRM, development of communication with other subjects and agree on the possible solutions of identified deficiencies)

16. SSC in Metallurgy? • Options • Large range • Steel industry – BF workers, steelmakers, rollers, secondary manufacturers • Foundries • Forges • Non-ferrous industry • Co-operation among the SSCs • Machinery • Electrical engineering • Civil engineering

17. Thank you for your attention and Discussion RNDr. Jaroslav Raab Chairman of Metallurgy and Foundry SSC www.hz.cz