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

 

Report of employers' representatives group in the 37th Meeting of the Technical Committee of Cinterfor/ILO.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 19th to 21st October, 2005

We, the representatives of employers’ sectors from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados and the Dominican Republic, have met in order to share criteria and experiences which may be of mutual interest in order to propose future actions
to Cinterfor/ILO that reflect our thinking and interest.

We must say that the dialogue with representatives from Barbados and Jamaica was fruitful. They offered us information on their national realities and allowed us to carry out the present proposals with an integrated and generalized vision.

This leads us to reflect on the importance of Cinterfor/ILO’s action and its effort to get representatives of the region together, thus walking towards a real integration between our countries.

We are thankful to Cinterfor/ILO, because these facts show that due to their intervention we are able to achieve a generous and participative dialogue to obtain common objectives.

We consider that Cinterfor/ILO is an agent that facilitates the development of national actors by offering cooperation, counselling, promoting gatherings of experts or of those actors, which become an arch of resonance on knowledge on vocational training in the modern world.

As a result, our group of employers’ representatives believes that we shall take a forward trend if Cinterfor/ILO is able to:

• Promote and cooperate in the implementation of employers’ regional forums where international experts could be invited.

• Encourage employers’ vocational training, focusing also on us as training subjects. We have particularly discussed and agreed on the need of such training in competency-based human resources management.

• Perform cooperation actions implying the dynamization of human resources development programmes in order to reflect the needs of various sectors, thus promoting tripartism.

• In the cases where vocational training is offered and the formal market does not achieve the collection of resources, which are diverted to the informal sector, we hope to carry out actions that imply training employers of the informal sector, in order to attract them to the formal sector.

• Promote corporate social responsibility, carry out actions implying incentives in the enterprise sector and implement enduring actions of real and sustained commitments with their specific contexts.

• Promote an action platform to allow the achievement of international standards for the certification of competencies.

• Promote employers’ participation in education and vocational training “as vocational trainers themselves”.

• Promote actions to help mediate in national dialogue.

• Promote employers’ participation in the certification of national labour competencies systems.

• Promote training for the innovation and entrepreneurship capacity.

• Perform actions that may promote the transformation of the notion of leadership.

• Cooperate in establishing productivity measurement systems and implementation of statistics in this regard.

• Promote training actions to help in the reflection of social actors and the definition and compliance of their roles.

• Encourage the relationship between government and employers in order to shorten or close the existing gap between the responsibilities of each, within a framework of cooperation and mutual understanding where the government creates the conditions to achieve substantial changes in the labour market and the enterprises achieve a sustained development and economic growth.

Finally, we understand that without education and training there can be no enterprises or employees, and the various societies, as a whole, expect more from enterprises to act in their environment. For this reason we believe that the authorities and work teams of Cinterfor/ILO are strategic allies of our sector in order to achieve the growth and development of our knowledge, thus improving our actions and social participation.

The group was integrated by:

Marcela Eivers, Unión Industrial Argentina, Argentina
Charmaine-Napoleon-Ramsay, Barbados Employers' Federation, Barbados
Francisco Velez, Asociación Nacional de Industriales, Colombia
José Manuel Fernández, Cámara Nacional de Comercio, Servicio y Turismo, Chile
Sandra Prince, Learning and Human Resource Development Manager, Jamaica
Carlos Aguilar Conde, Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana, Méxocp
María de Guadalupe Cupul Díaz, COPARMEX, México

 

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