Modernization of Public Employment Services (PES) to Position Them as a Basic Instrument in the Design and Start Up of National Employment Policies

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Modernization of Public Employment Services (PES)
to Position Them as a Basic Instrument in the
Design and Start Up of National Employment
Policies
FIRST MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUPS XIV
INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS OF LABOUR
(IACML) WORKING GROUP 2. EL SALVADOR
Mexico, april 2006
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OBJECTIVE

• To provide a general frame of reference for the
  improvement and modernisation of the operation of
  public employment services in order to face the
  challenges of obtaining full and productive
  employment and decent work.
• To encourage the Ministries of Labour to improve
  the conceptualization and application of the
  national employment strategies in the face of the
  challenges of globalisation.
• To contribute to the debate on key activities
  that the PES must develop to set priorities and
  adapt to each individual country
  (employment-labour market, macroeconomics).

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INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

• The need to balance flexibility with labour
  security.
• The deficit of decent work continues to
  constitute a challenge at the beginning of the
  millennium.
• 1/3 of the worlds work force is unemployed or
  under-employed.
• 50 of the worlds work force lives on less than
  2 dollars per day.
• The labour competencies of the workers required
  by companies intensify daily (new processes of
  production. FTAs).

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INCREASED DEMAND FOR PES

• The growth of the informal economy, part-time
  work and new forms of employment.
• Cross-border movement of workers.
• The generation of new poles of economic
  development.
• The processes of economic integration and trade
  liberalization.
• The increasing growth of young people coming out
  of the educational system.
• Employment and the labour markets as the key link
  between economic growth, poverty reduction and
  equilibrium of the labour market.

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INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT

• Decent work has become a global objective.
• World Summit 2005 We firmly support a just
  globalisation and resolve that the objectives of
  full and productive employment and decent work
  for all, especially for women and young people,
  will be a basic goal of our national and
  international policies. Everything is a part of
  the effort to achieve the millennium development
  objectives.
• Mar del Plata Summit.
• Tripartite Declaration of Honduras.
• Subject of ECOSO-2006 Creation of a national and
  international environment that supports the
  generation of full and productive employment and
  decent work for all and its consequences for
  sustainable development.

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DECLARATION OF HONDURAS

• Subjects of the accords
• Macroeconomic policy, investment and employment
• Strengthening of employment services and programs
  of professional training
• Free basic education
• Universality, solidarity and sustainability of
  social security
• Health and security in the workplace
• Fulfilment of labour rights
• Attention to special groups
• Gender equity
• Strengthening of employers and workers
  organizations and social dialogue.

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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - ACHIEVING DECENT
WORK

• Positioning as leading entity in the design and
  start up of national employment policies.
• Promote inter-institutional coordination
  mechanisms for the integration of macroeconomic,
  financial, commercial investment, and sectoral
  policies.
• Promote employment-related objectives as central
  elements in social and economic policy frameworks.

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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - ACHIEVING DECENT
WORK

• Integrate the PES with professional training
  institutions in order to
• Improve the training services through the FTAs
• Improve the opportunities for young people,
  women, workers in the informal economy,
  handicapped persons, older adults and other
  vulnerable groups
• Integrate the system of formal education with
  professional training (technological institutes
  and adult education)

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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - ACHIEVING DECENT
WORK

• Integrated management and employment promotion
  services
• Occupational orientation.
• Intermediation for employment.
• Services of orientation and technical assistance
  for SMEs
• Employment fairs for young people, older adults,
  handicapped, shut-ins.
• Attention by private employment agencies.

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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - ACHIEVING DECENT
WORK

• Labour market observatory for advocacy in
• Policies of local economic development
• Professional training programmess
• Construction of infrastructure that requires
  intensive use of labour
• Investment policies

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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES - ACHIEVING DECENT
WORK

• De-concentration of the public employment service
  (FTAs and intermediation services)
• Promotion of local, municipal and regional
  alliances for the installation of management and
  employment offices and for the design and start
  up of joint action strategies in the area of
  employment.
• Social dialogue as a basic instrument of the PES.

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CONCLUSION

• How to effectively promote, put into practise and
  prioritise the various components or action areas
  that the PES must impel?
• A decided action is needed by the central
  governments to strengthen the technical and
  operational capacity of the Ministries of Labour
• The elaboration of an inventory of the new tools
  of the PES is needed
• Update the organizational and functional model of
  the public employment services. An instrument for
  thinking strategically about the basic
  competencies of the PES.
• An active and rapid intervention of the
  international cooperation agencies is needed to
  promote this holistic policy approach on what we
  have discussed, positioning the PES as a
  fundamental element in the design and start up of
  national employment policies.

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• THANK YOU !!!