Policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training shall be
formulated and implemented in co-operation with employers' and workers' organisations and,
as appropriate and in accordance with national law and practice, with other interested
bodies.
The information and guidance should be
supplemented by information on general aspects of collective agreements and of
the rights and obligations of all concerned under labour law; this information
should be provided in accordance with national law and practice, taking into
account the respective functions and tasks of the workers' and employers'
organisations concerned.
The competent authorities should, in line with
national planning and national laws and regulations and after consultation of
employers' and workers' organisations, establish national or regional
further-training plans related to employment.
B. Vocational Training Standards and Guidelines
Initial and further training leading to
recognised occupational qualifications should be covered as far as possible by
general standards set or approved by the competent body, after consultation with
the employers' and workers' organisations concerned.
Vocational training standards and guidelines
should be evaluated and reviewed periodically, with the participation of
employers' and workers' organisations, and adjusted to changing requirements,
the periodicity of review being determined by the rate of change in the
occupation concerned.
The competent authorities should, in line with
national planning and national laws and regulations and after consultation of
employers' and workers' organisations, establish plans for training for
management and supervisory functions and for self-employed persons.
Representatives of employers' and workers'
organisations should be included in the bodies responsible for governing
publicly operated training institutions and for supervising their operation;
where such bodies do not exist, representatives of employers' and workers'
organisations should in other ways participate in the setting-up, management and
supervision of such institutions.
Part II. Principles of Vocational
Rehabilitation and Employment Policies for Disabled Persons
Article 5
The representative organisations of employers and workers
shall be consulted on the implementation of the said policy, including the
measures to be taken to promote co-operation and co-ordination between the
public and private bodies engaged in vocational rehabilitation activities. The
representative organisations of and for disabled persons shall also be
consulted.
Vocational rehabilitation services in both urban and
rural areas and in remote communities should be organised and operated with
the fullest possible community participation, in particular with that of the
representatives of employers', workers' and disabled persons' organisations.
VI. The Contribution of Employers' and
Workers' Organisations to the Development of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Employers' and workers' organisations should adopt a
policy for the promotion of training and suitable employment of disabled
persons on an equal footing with other workers.
Employers' and workers' organisations, together with
disabled persons and their organisations, should be able to contribute to
the formulation of policies concerning the organisation and development of
vocational rehabilitation services, as well as to carry out research and
propose legislation in this field.
Wherever possible and appropriate, representatives of
employers', workers' and disabled persons' organisations should be included
in the membership of the boards and committees of vocational rehabilitation
and training centres used by disabled persons, which make decisions on
policy and technical matters, with a view to ensuring that the vocational
rehabilitation programmes correspond to the requirements of the various
economic sectors.
Wherever possible and appropriate, employers and workers'
representatives in the undertaking should co-operate with appropriate
specialists in considering the possibilities for vocational rehabilitation
and job reallocation of disabled persons employed by that undertaking and
for giving employment to other disabled persons.
Wherever possible and appropriate, undertakings should be
encouraged to establish or maintain their own vocational rehabilitation
services, including various types of sheltered employment, in close
co-operation with community-based and other rehabilitation services.
Wherever possible and appropriate, employers'
organisations should take steps to:
advise their members on vocational rehabilitation
services which could be made available to disabled workers;
co-operate with bodies and institutions which promote
the reintegration of disabled persons into active working life by
providing, for instance, information on working conditions and job
requirements which disabled persons have to meet;
advise their members on adjustments which could be
made for disabled workers to the essential duties or requirements of
suitable jobs;
advise their members to consider the impact that
reorganising production methods might have, so that disabled persons are
not inadvertently displaced.
Wherever possible and appropriate, workers' organisations
should take steps to:
promote the participation of disabled workers in
discussions at the shop-floor level and in works councils or any other
body representing the workers;
propose guidelines for the vocational rehabilitation
and protection of workers who become disabled through sickness or
accident, whether work-related or not, and have such guidelines included
in collective agreements, regulations, arbitration awards or other
appropriate instruments;
offer advice on shop-floor arrangements affecting
disabled workers, including job adaption, special work organisation,
trial training and employment and the fixing of work norms;
raise the problems of vocational rehabilitation and
employment of disabled persons at trade union meetings and inform their
members, through publications and seminars, of the problems of and
possibilities for the vocational rehabilitation and employment of
disabled persons.
Vocational rehabilitation services should be
established and developed with the assistance of representative advisory
committees, set up at the national level and, where appropriate, at
regional and local levels.
These committees should, as appropriate, include
members drawn from among:
the authorities and bodies directly concerned
with vocational rehabilitation;
employers' and workers' organisations;
persons specially qualified to serve by reason of
their knowledge of, and concern with, the vocational rehabilitation
of the disabled; and
organisations of disabled persons.
These committees should be responsible for advising:
at the national level, on the development of
policy and programmes for vocational rehabilitation;
at regional and local levels, on the application
of measures taken nationally, their adaptation to regional and local
conditions and the co-ordination of regional and local activities.
Each Member should formulate a national policy for the
prevention of discrimination in employment and occupation. This policy
should be applied by means of legislative measures, collective agreements
between representative employers' and workers' organisations or in any other
manner consistent with national conditions and practice, and should have
regard to the following principles:
The public authorities, employers' and workers'
organisations, and institutions or bodies providing education and training shall
be associated, in a manner appropriate to national conditions and practice, with
the formulation and application of the policy for the promotion of paid
educational leave.
The public authorities, employers' and workers'
organisations, and institutions or bodies providing education and training
should be associated, in a manner appropriate to national conditions and
practice, with the formulation and application of the policy for the
promotion of paid educational leave.
employers' and workers' organisations, may be
expected to contribute to the financing of arrangements for paid
educational leave according to their respective responsibilities.
The manner in which workers who satisfy the
conditions of eligibility are granted paid educational leave should be
agreed upon between undertakings or the employers' organisations
concerned and the workers' organisations concerned so as to ensure the
efficient continuing operation of the undertakings in question.
Representatives of employers and workers and their
organisations should be consulted in formulating policies for the
development and use of human capacities, and their co-operation should be
sought in the implementation of such policies, in the spirit of the
Consultation (Industrial and National Levels) Recommendation, 1960.
V. Action by Employers and Workers and
their Organisations
Employers and workers in the public and private
sectors, and their organisations, should take all practicable measures
to promote the achievement and maintenance of full, productive and
freely chosen employment.
In particular, they should:
provide or seek the provision of facilities such
as training and retraining facilities, and related financial
benefits;
In consultation and co-operation as appropriate with
workers' organisations and/or representatives of workers at the level of
the undertaking, and having regard to national economic and social
conditions, measures should be taken by undertakings to counteract
unemployment, to help workers find new jobs, to increase the number of
jobs available and to minimise the consequences of unemployment; such
measures may include:
The direction and co-ordination of special schemes at
the national level should be achieved by means of some appropriate body or
bodies established by the competent authority.
The body or bodies should, wherever possible, include,
in addition to government members, representatives of workers', employers' and
youth organisations so as to ensure their active participation in the planning,
operation, co-ordination, inspection and evaluation of the special schemes.
In the performance of these tasks the body or bodies
should, as necessary, consult voluntary agencies and authorities responsible for
such relevant fields as labour, education, economic affairs, agriculture,
industry and social affairs.
The body or bodies should maintain continuous liaison
with the authorities responsible for regular educational and training programmes,
in order to ensure co-ordination with a view to the gradual elimination of
special schemes as rapidly as possible.
The active participation of local authorities should be
sought in relation to the choice and implementation of projects within the
framework of special schemes.
When establishing special schemes, the competent
authority should endeavour to provide sufficient financial and material
resources and the necessary qualified staff to ensure their full implementation.
In this connection particular attention should be given to ways in which the
schemes could generate their own sources of income. No financial contribution
should be required from the participant or his family.
Provision should be made for the systematic inspection
and auditing of special schemes.
Organisation at the local level should be such as to
train and encourage the participants gradually to take a share in the
administration of their scheme.
