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Vieira, M. Tostes; Villavicencio Ríos, A.; Cortés Carcelén, J.C.
Social dialogue on vocational training in Peru

Montevideo: CINTERFOR, 2004
144 pp. (Contributions to Social Dialogue and Training, 10)

ISBN 92-9088-165-8

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

Introduction

For the first time, the series Contributions to Social Dialogue and Training introduces a highest-level research study of an Andean country. In achieving this end, the combined efforts of Cinterfor/ILO and the ILO Subregional Office for the Andean Countries were fundamental.

It is interesting to point out, in the first place, that this is the work of a bi-disciplinary team, composed of an economist specialised in training issues, Marta Tostes Vieira, a Brazilian residing in Lima, and of labour legal experts, Alfredo Villavicencio Ríos and Juan Carlos Cortés Carcelén. These authors manage to offer a detailed and precise picture of the status of social dialogue on vocational training in Peru, placing it first in its economic, social and legal context. Further on, as in other studies pertaining to this series, social dialogue is analysed within the context of actual collective bargaining, other forms of dialogue and participation mechanisms, up to a final critical reflection on the situation and the formulation of specific recommendations.

Set up in five chapters, the study begins with a description of the context where vocational training and labour relations systems take place in Peru. In effect, the first chapter describes the so-called "labour market", then the vocational training system -including its legal framework; training institutions, organisations or agencies; as well as training investment- and, finally, it outlines Peruvian labour relations trends.

After delimiting the context, the second chapter focuses on collective bargaining on vocational training. After describing the general features of Peruvian collective bargaining and the proposals for change presently under debate, collective agreements that contain vocational training clauses and their content are examined in detail. The study reviews over 1,500 collective agreements of enterprises in Metropolitan Lima, covering the 1997-2002 period. The annex appearing at the end of this volume includes 122 specific cases of conventional clauses -agreed or only proposed- corresponding to the total cases under consideration.

The third chapter brings up the efforts toward macro social dialogue carried out in the area of vocational training. Special reference is made to the Commission of Vocational Training and Skills Development of the National Labour and Employment Promotion Council.

On its part, chapter four examines workers' participation in training programmes set up by enterprises and in the management of sectoral vocational training institutions.

The conclusions and recommendations in the fifth chapter underline the convenience of ratifying international labour convention No. 142 on human resources development and of revising Peruvian labour legislation, as well as the need to promote social dialogue.

A bibliography and the above-mentioned annex covering collective agreements supplement the volume. The ILO Subregional Office for the Andean Countries and Cinterfor/ILO expressly acknowledge their joint satisfaction as they consider that, with the publication of this study, they are contributing toward the knowledge and development of social dialogue concerning vocational training.

Lima - Montevideo, 1st March 2004

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

I. THE CONTEXT OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND LABOUR RELATIONS IN PERU

1. Recent evolution of the main features of the Peruvian labour market
2. The vocational training system in Peru
3. Trends at the labour relations level

II. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ON VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN PERU

1. From restrictive regulations in the 1990s to the search of a new model of collective labour relations
2. Collective agreements with vocational training clauses between 1997 and 2002: assessment in Metropolitan Lima
3. Contents of conventional clauses on vocational training
4. A critical analysis regarding vocational training clauses

III. EFFORTS TOWARD SOCIAL DIALOGUE IN THE AREA OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING: THE NATIONAL LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION COUNCIL (CNTPE)

1. Outputs of the Vocational Training Commission during the transition period: diagnosis and policy guidelines
2. Activities of the Vocational Training Commission between February 2002 and July 2003

IV. PARTICIPATION

1. Other forms of workers' participation in the vocational training programmes of enterprises: case study
2. Involvement in the management of sectoral vocational training institutions in Peru: the cases of SENATI (National Service of Occupational Training in Industry), SENCICO (National Service of Training for the Construction Industry), CENFOTUR and INICTEL
3. Co-ordination between the State, enterprises and vocational training institutions: the Peruvian Occupational Training Forum (FOPECAL), Projoven, FondoEmpleo and BonoPyme

V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Conclusions
2. Recommendations

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANNEX

 

 

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