More than 185.000 professionals requested the Professional Card of the Construction in 2011
17 February 2012
The system of the Professional Card of the Construction allows to accredit the learning received by the worker along his professional career, what supposes an advance in the pointed line with the creation of the 'account of learning' included in the recent reform of the labour market approved by the government. It fits to stand out that from September of 2010, date in which it opened to the autonomous professionals the possibility to possess the TPC, have been more than 10.700 those that have requested it. The majority profile of the workers of the sector that already have requested the TPC is the one of a professional of between 36 and 45 years of age, that carries between one and five working in the construction. On the other hand, so only 3,4% of the applicants is woman and 43,7% found in situation of unemployment in the moment to request it.