The National Employment Bureau is an executive unit from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Uruguay.

Its mission is to develop actions that help make economic growth compatible with the creation of high quality employment and promoting in this way the development and competitiveness of enterprises and workers.

The central goal of its work is to develop research activities; orientation and training that facilitate the entry into working life for those workers with employment difficulties and improve the quality of vocational training.

Its actions are based on the idea that the above is possible only with the participation of workers, entrepreneurs, government and social organizations. This is the reason why the DINAE convokes for dialogue and for joint efforts to meet the needs of the different sectors.

With the National Board of Employment (JUNAE) integrated by the PIT/CNT, entrepreneurs and government and the financing of the fund of retraining, a series of programmes are being executed to support those facing difficulties in employment.

The set of actions developed by the DINAE focus on the generation of active policies of employment and vocational training that ensure continuous and efficient training of the labour force and that contribute a productive balance between enterprise and workers interests facilitating the modernization of the work life in the country.

The JUNAE is a tripartite agency that works within the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. It is integrated by delegates of the Entrepreneurs and Workers and presided by the National Director of Employment. It has the role of administrating the Fund of Retraining and to assist the DINAE in the reformulation of policies of employment and vocational training.

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Cinterfor/ILO: Modernization in Vocational Education and Training in the Latin American and the Caribbean Region Montevideo, 2001.