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Last update:
22/11/2007

PRESENTATION

The fact that vocational training is becoming more present within the labour relations scenario has resulted in the need to include a particular space for it in the site. This has been clearly expressed by the activities developed by social actors in order to update workers' knowledge both about collective bargaining and tripartite activities at regional, national and local levels. This simply confirms that vocational training has become an important issue within the social dialogue that links governments, employers' and workers' organisations and, occasionally, other institutions that have to do with the training of people with a view to productive work. Its strong bond with employment, its contribution to the fight against inequity as well as to the competitiveness of enterprises in a globalised economy and the inevitable fact that it comprises a fundamental people's right are enough reasons for Cinterfor/ILO to include this site about "Social dialogue and vocational training" within its Web page.

The services to be provided by this site are as wide as the "hypertextual" nature of vocational training in its relationship with the world of labour.

Thus, the section Social Dialogue on vocational training firstly attempts to set the boundaries of the concept of "social dialogue" by linking it to a modern social theory and by referring to the main international standards which have regarded social dialogue as an essential right - without leaving aside one of the most important assumptions: the freedom of association. In National experiences of social dialogue and vocational training, it is possible to observe the variety of social standards and agreements in which vocational training has been an outstanding component. Finally, in Tripartism and vocational training, after a new attempt of conceptual delimitation, the user is informed about the large institutional network which provides information about Latin American experiences on the subject and establishes links with those practices in order to study each case in depth.

Labour relations and vocational training deals with one of the most important issues in recent studies on the evolution of vocational training. It includes the initiatives taken by social partners for the training of their teams (trade union and entrepreneurial schools and institutes), the role and place of training within collective bargaining and its regulation by labour standards and labour administration, considering some examples of competencies taken up by Ministries of Labour.

The section Documents and publications on social dialogue, labour relations and vocational training intends to keep an updated catalogue of papers on the subject, produced both within the scope of Cinterfor/ILO and ILO itself as well as by other sources.

Finally, Information and activities is a kind of "billboard" meant to facilitate the follow-up and evolution of the subjects comprised by the Web page. This part, in particular, includes the fundamental documents on the debate about the revision of ILO's "Human Resources Development" Recommendation, nº 150.

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