II — Policies and programmes Verdrag betreffende de rol van beroepskeuzevoorlichting en beroepsopleiding bij de ontwikkeling van menselijke hulpbronnen
Policies and programmes
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(1) Members should adopt and develop comprehensive and co-ordinated policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training, closely linked with employment, in particular through public employment services.
(2) These policies and programmes should take due account of -
(a) employment needs, opportunities and problems, both regional and national;
(b) the stage and level of economic, social and cultural development; and
(c) the mutual relationships between human resources development and other economic, social and cultural objectives.
(3) The policies and programmes should be pursued by methods that are appropriate to national conditions.
(4) The policies and programmes should encourage and enable all persons, on an equal basis and without any discrimination whatsoever, to develop and use their capabilities for work in their own best interests and in accordance with their own aspirations, account being taken of the needs of society.
(5) Such policies and programmes should also encourage undertakings to accept responsibility for training workers in their employment. Undertakings should cooperate with the representatives of their workers when planning their training programmes and should ensure, as far as possible, that these programmes are in line with those of the public training system.
(6) Such policies and programmes should have as objectives -
(a) to ensure entry into productive employment, including self-employment, which corresponds to personal aptitudes and aspirations, and to facilitate occupational mobility;
(b) to promote and develop creativity, dynamism and initiative with a view to maintaining or increasing work effectiveness;
(c) to protect persons against unemployment or other loss of income or earning capacity deriving from lack of demand for their skills as well as against underemployment;
(d) to protect persons against excessive physical or mental strain in employment;
(e) to protect persons against occupational hazards by making high standards of teaching occupational safety and health an integral part of training for each trade or occupation;
(f) to assist persons in their quest for satisfaction at work, for individual achievement and self-expression, and for the betterment of their lot in life through their own efforts to improve the quality or modify the nature of their contribution to the economy;
(g) to achieve social, cultural and economic advancement and continuing adjustment to change, with the participation of all concerned in reshaping the work requirements;
(h) to achieve the full participation of all groups in society in the process of development and in sharing the benefits deriving from it.
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(1) With the above ends in view, Members should establish and develop open, flexible and complementary systems of general, technical and vocational education, educational and vocational guidance and vocational training, whether these activities take place within the system of formal education or outside it.
(2) Members should aim in particular at -
(a) ensuring that all have equal access to vocational guidance and vocational training;
(b) providing, on a continuing basis, broadly conceived and realistic vocational guidance for the various groups of the population in all branches of economic activity;
(c) developing comprehensive systems of vocational training covering all aspects of productive work in all branches of economic activity;
(d) facilitating mobility between different lines of training, within and between the various occupations and sectors of economic activity and between different levels of responsibility;
(e) co-ordinating vocational training for one sector of the economy or branch of economic activity with vocational training for other sectors or branches;
(f) establishing patterns of systematic vocational training in all branches of economic activity and for all types of work and levels of skill and responsibility;
(g) providing all workers with real possibilities for re-entering the educational system, at a level which takes account of their work experience;
(h) establishing close co-operation and co-ordination between vocational guidance and vocational training provided outside the school system, on the one hand, and educational guidance and the school system, on the other;
(i) establishing conditions permitting workers to supplement their vocational training by trade union education given by their representative organisations;
(j) undertaking research and adapting administrative arrangements and methods as required for implementing the programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training.
6. The policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training should -
(a) be co-ordinated with policies and major programmes of social and economic development such as employment promotion, social integration, rural development, development of crafts and industry, adaptation of methods and organisation of work to human requirements and improvement of working conditions;
(b) take account of international economic and technological interaction and co-operation;
(c) be reviewed periodically in relation to current and planned social and economic development;
(d) promote activities which will stimulate workers to contribute to improved international relations;
(e) contribute to fuller understanding of technical, scientific, economic, social and cultural matters;
(f) create and develop an appropriate infrastructure for providing adequate training respecting the essential standards of occupational health and safety.
- Regeling
- Verdrag betreffende de rol van beroepskeuzevoorlichting en beroepsopleiding bij de ontwikkeling van menselijke hulpbronnen
- Soort
- Verdrag
- Geldend vanaf
- 19-06-1980
- BWB-id
- BWBV0003733
- Versie
- 1980-06-19_0