Statements by the employers' sector at Cinterfor/ILO's events

 

Statement of the employers' representatives group in the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the Technical Committee
Brasilia, Brazil, August 30 - September 1st, 2001.

 

The business sector group shares the Cinterfor/ILO proposal for action in the biennium 2001-2002, and wishes to add the following suggestions for their consideration:

1.To undertake actions to sponsor meetings of the employers’ group to get acquainted with and fully appreciate successful ongoing vocational training experiences, such as the Spanish example on which Mr. Javier Ferrer commented briefly.

2.To undertake actions that contribute to strengthening the social dialogue through technical development of skills of the different social players involved: government employees, employers, trade union organisations and vocational training institutions.
It is understood that the social dialogue must then be fortified with a view to achieving a consensus on effective actions that will allow us to further plans to create, implement and monitor vocational training.

3.To undertake actions that will encourage vocational training institutions to develop a business spirit, especially among the young, that will help them to establish new businesses.

4.To take into account in the strategies to be defined the need for actions that enable the active participation of small and medium-sized enterprises in vocational training plans.

5.Considering that informality does not meet with the basic principles of decent work, we request that Cinterfor/ILO develop vocational training actions that imply a struggle against informal labour, such as by fostering a business spirit.

6.We wish Cinterfor/ILO to play an active role in its technical support of the different vocational training institutions.

Besides the above, we wish to state the following:

a. We understand that basic education is an essential function of the State that cannot be delegated. National vocational training systems should have standards for accreditation and homologation of programs and even validate and acknowledge labour experience acquired within firms, in order to harmonise and articulate them with the formal education systems of each country.

b. We, the entrepreneurs, wish to sound the alert in order that Cinterfor/ILO may analyse the impact that integration with ALCA may have in Latin America, both on our firms and on human resources in general.

Lastly, regarding the document “Training for decent work” (reference document 1), we ask for a judicious amount of time for its analysis by the business sector and thus to be able to state our insights regarding it.

 

 

 

 

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