VIRTUAL COURSE ON CERTIFICATION OF LABOUR SKILLS

Update - April, 2005Maria Claudia Camacho

Specialist, Office of Education Science and Technology

Executive Secretariat for Integral Development (ESIDI)

Second Meeting of IACML Working Groups

Buenos Aires, April 11th - 13th, 2005

Background

• Operative Agreement between the Ministry of Labour of Mexico and the Council of Ministers of Labour of C.A., Belize, Panama and Dominican Republic - Nov. 2001

“Give priority to the exchange of knowledge and experience on the National Systems of Normalization and Certification of Labour Skills, that are being operated by CONOCER”

First Activities to comply with this commitment:

Proposal to develop a Virtual Course, with support from OAS

Background

1) Seminar “Elaboration of Technical Norms of Labor Skills” – Panama City, July, 2002 Training given by specialists of CONOCER to

government officials.

2) Workshop “Evaluation and Certification of Labor Skills based on the CONOCER model” - Mexico D.F., August, 2002

Training of officers from the Ministries of Labour of 8 countries

Financial and technical assistance from OAS

Stage 1 – Definition of the course based on the study of the CONOCER model

Council of Normalization and Certification of Labour Skills

CONOCER

Integrated by employers, workers and government

System of Normalization of Labor Skills

System of Certification of Labor

Skills

Operates two systems:

Elaboration of Technical Norms of Labor Skills

(TNLS), through Normalization Committees

Establishes mechanisms to evaluate and certify

knowledge and expertise based on TNLS

Stage 1 – Definition of the course based on the study of the CONOCER model

NORMALIZATION

Model Components:

EVALUATION

CERTIFICATION

•Elaboration of TNLS (based in productive functions, not in job posts) •Normalization Committees (workers and employers) by sector

Evaluation Centers and Independent Evaluator collect evidences on personal labor performance, based in TNLS

Certification Organisms - Independent of Training and Evaluation processes

Stage 1 – Definition of the course based on the study of the CONOCER model

Module 5: Professional Training based on Labor Skills

Module 1: Introduction to the Labor Skills approach

Module 2: Elaboration of Labor Skills Norms

Module 3: Labor Skills Certification

Module 4: Labor Skills Evaluation

Course Scheme:

1) Definition of modules and Bibliography CONOCER, OAS and workshop participants

2) Submission of contents - CONOCER

6) Call to participants and opening of the Course for Central America (First stage)

3) Pedagogical Processing - OAS, with revision by CONOCER

4) Technological Processing and Course online - Educational Portal-OAS

5) Tutors training – OAS and CONOCER

First Semester 2003

Second Semester 2003 / Interruption / Second

Semester 2004

Stages

First Semester 2003

First Semester 2005 ????

•Course contents have been developed up to Module 4 – Virtual platform already exists.

Present Situation

•Contents must be endorsed by CONOCER, given that they are entirely based on its model…

The CONOCER situation

December, 2004: The new CONOCER is created by Decree, but the establishment of the Trust is still pending – Until this happens, no personnel can be hired, nor can the the new system be approved.

In short: Normalization and Certification of Labor Skills Systems, as presented in the Virtual Course are now outdated, and the new systems have yet

to be validated.

January, 2005: New General Rules of the Systems have been drafted, but they can only be approved when the Trust is established and the new counselors are elected.