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National Initiatives by the Social Partners in the Field of Training in Bipartite Dialogue, Including Collective Bargaining - Brazil
Source: ILO/CINTERFOR
In Brazil, the Collective Banking Agreement, while it does not stipulate concrete mechanisms for training, does stipulate, among the regulations on economic matters, that the employees be given an "education payment" to reimburse them for the costs of their own first grade education and that of their children, in fee-paying establishments, and on the understanding that this is not in the nature of a salary payment. It also regulates the granting of special leave for reasons of study, on the basis that these release days be considered as effective work time.
Agreement of the Automobile Sector
Among relevant examples in recent years in Brazil, the Agreement of the Automobile Sector has to be mentioned. This covers the collective bargaining which took place in Brasilia (February 1993), between private companies and professional bodies for employers on one side, and workers’ organizations represented by the CUT, by Fuerza Sindical and by the Sao Paulo Federation of Metalworkers on the other. This agreement is unusual in that it also included a third participant, the Federal Government, which was interested in promoting productive investment and employment through facilities and recognised guarantees to the private sector. The list of subjects agreed includes the raising of production levels, of the number of work posts, of salary levels and of commercialisation, and the lowering of taxes, of profit margins in the chain of production, and of prices to the consumer. This instrument also incorporates some regulations on matters of technology, quality and productivity. To achieve all this, the basic first step is to expand the space of the automobile sector in the "Brazilian Programme of Quality and Productivity", especially when it comes to the training and recycling of the work force employed. Through the creation of a technical-scientific body in the sector, or through the transformation of one of the bodies that already exists, there is an attempt to achieve technical standardization, the certification of quality and the implementation of programmes of quality, productivity and technology on a national level, including the representation of workers on the Deliberative Council of the Programme. This body has been assigned the task of managing and integrating the resources and the qualifications of the organs of technology and quality that are in being. Among the working groups that have been created to develop the agreement and promote an agenda of continuity, there is one which covers aspects connected to technology and quality.
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