vocational training [ distance training | e-training | manpower training | pre-vocational training | sandwich training ]

labour-intensive [ labor-intensive | labour intensive ]

manpower needs [ labour supply | manpower demand | manpower requirements | labour supply(UNBIS) ]

labour force [ manpower | structure of the labour force | worker | employees(UNBIS) ]

casual labor | casual labour | temporary workers

Convention Concerning Equal Remuneration for Men and Women Workers for Work of Equal Value [ Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 ]

labor-intensive

labour estimate

The importance of continuing training is acknowledged by all as a key factor in promoting an adaptable, competitive and productive workforce and shared responsibility for financing labour force training seems to have been accepted in principle, however, in practice investment rates for each actor (governments and social partners, enterprises and individual workers) remain generally low.

Initiatives linking working time with training (for example working time accounts, educational and training leave and job rotation schemes are continuing. Efforts to develop accreditation systems for non-formal learning are being taken forward. There are some signs of a movement towards a longer-term, more strategic approach to workforce development and the promotion of more integrated packages of measures promoting lifelong learning but generally little attention has been given to promoting a broader culture of learning in the workplace. Entitlement of workers to individual training plans is becoming more common (Belgium, Denmark, the N ...[+++]etherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom), and, in a few cases, a broader entitlement to a minimum number of hours training per year is being introduced (Portugal, Finland). However, it is too early to see the results.

Workforce training would be targeted especially at the low skilled. Combinations of work and training and mobility between training systems would be promoted.

28. Supports the proposal by the EU institutions that, with request to the principle of equal treatment, the number of Roma working in public services should be increased; points out, however, that in order to make this possible it is necessary not only for governments to pursue personnel and labour-force training policies which promote it but also to make special efforts and provide active support to facilitate public acceptance of the principle;