National Initiatives which Provide Support to the Social Partners to Enable Them to Participate in Social Dialogue on Training - Uruguay

Source: ILO/CINTERFOR

National Employment Board (JUNAE)

In Uruguay, through a negotiation initiated by the MOL with all political and social partners, the National Employment Direction (DINAE) and the tripartite National Employment Board (JUNAE) were created in 1992. This was a decisive step towards intervening actively in the formulation and implementation of vocational training policies. JUNAE administrates resources from the Labour Retraining Fund, which was also created in 1992. The Law 16.320 of November 1996 empowers the Board to finance training actions for different population groups, in particular low-income young people.

JUNAE is a tripartite body chaired by the Employment Director of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Uruguay, which manages and allocates resources from the Labour Retraining Fund. The Fund is constituted by contributions from employers, workers and the government for the training and retraining of persons with special difficulties to get a job, and laid off workers. The Board has various programmes directed to the unemployed, young people seeking for employment for the first time, and rural workers. The Fund also finances training programmes submitted by firms, or concerted in collective agreements.

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