Ramon Santos Labor Law Enforcement Auditor

Coordinator of the Project Inclusion of Apprentices in the Labor Market of the Regional Labor and Employment Office of Rio de Janeiro (SRTE-RJ)

Hourly minimum wage Vacation 13th salary Transportation voucher Social security protection Monitoring by the training organization Monitoring by a monitor FGTS (Worker's Severance Fund) Provision of a Professional Apprenticeship/Training course Record in the employment card (CTPS) Compulsory enrollment and attendance at a regular school Possibility of being actually hired after the apprenticeship period

INCOME

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

DIGNITY

# BRASIL:

Potential workers: 965,000Hired workers: 381,000 (39%)

*Reference: RAIS (Annual Social Information List) and CAGED (General Register of Employed and Unemployed Workers)/2016. Minimum quota of 5%

Art. 23-A. A hiring organization whose specific activity orworkplaces do not offer an appropriate environment for thedelivery of practical classes can, apart from delivering suchclasses exclusively at the facilities of a qualified professionaltechnical training organization, contact the respectivedecentralized unit of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare tosign a term of commitment to comply with the quota at an entityspecialized in providing practical experience to apprentices.

Paragraph 2 - The following are considered entities specialized inproviding practical experience to apprentices:

I - public agencies;II - civil society organizations, as defined in art. 2 of Law No.13,019 of July 31, 2014; andIII - units of the National System of Socio-Educational Services -Sinase.

Paragraph 5 - Apprentices shall be selected from the public employmentregister available at the More Employment (Mais Emprego) portal andtheir selection shall give priority to the inclusion of youth and adolescentsin situations of vulnerability or social risk, such as:

I - adolescents released from the socio-educational system or servingsocio-educational measures;II - young people serving a sentence in prison;III - young people and adolescents whose families are beneficiaries ofcash transfer programs;IV - young people and adolescents in institutional sheltering situations;V - young people and adolescents removed from child labor;VI - young people and adolescents with disabilities;VII - young people and adolescents enrolled in an elementary, secondaryor technical-vocational public school, including in the Youth and AdultEducation modality; and,VIII - unemployed youths who completed elementary or secondaryeducation in the public school system.

Company: Grupo prol

Start date: 2016

Target audience: Young people in the 16-21 age bracket living in communities in the north and west zones of Rio de Janeiro and in the Baixada Fluminensedistrict of the city

Number of young people: 200 young apprentices and 300 youths from the communities attending free courses

Training entity: Instituto Transforma de educação técnica e profissional

Course: Administrative Assistant

“I am very pleased to be taking part in a project like this, which besidesproviding me with a great apprenticeship opportunity makes it possiblefor me to advance in the labor market, with excellent professionals. Itgives us a chance to interact with and to learn how to deal with otherpeople facing completely different realities.” (Diogo)

“The project is extremely important for us young people who are justentering the labor market, as it provides a basis for all the professionalaspects we need to be aware of, such as how to behave, speak, relate toeach other. I feel proud and privileged to be taking part in the project andto have the opportunity to qualify myself as a professional.” (Victória)

Companies: Set of 9 companies, most of which operate in the outsourcing industry

Start date: 2016

Number of young people: 455

Practical apprenticeship site: Olympic and Paralympic Games

Training entity: Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro

Companies: Set of 4 companies, all of which operate in the outsourcing industry

Tentative start date: March 2017

Number of young people: 405 youths

Profile: Young people serving socio-educational measures in confinement and semi-confinement in a detention center

Practical apprenticeship site: DEGASE

Courses: Individual micro entrepreneur (MEI), pizza chef, administrative assistant, photographer, computer operator, barber, manicure/pedicure, sales promoter

Training entity: Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, ISBET and CIEDs

Companies should be offered some kind of taxexemption to hire young people and adolescents insocially vulnerable situations, such as:

Adolescents removed from child labor

Adolescents serving socio-educational measures

Adolescents in shelters

◦ Training of young professionals;

◦ Reduction in the number of young people dependent on government to the minimum necessary

◦ Competition with illegal ways of earning an income

◦ Reduction in the school dropout rate

Email: RAMON.SANTOS@MTE.GOV.BR

PHONE: +55 21 997768485