Decentralized Public Employment Services and their Linkage with the Business World

Topics:

EMPLOYMENT

Employment services

Employment policies and programs

Event date:

03/16/2011 to 03/18/2011

Place:

Mexico City

Host Country:

Mexico

Objectives:

To facilitate effective and active exchange regarding the need to achieve the consolidation of public employment services (PES) in terms of their effective decentralization and improving their linkage with the business world.

Specific objectives:

To reflect on the effectiveness of strategies and tools for promoting decentralized PES and their contribution to local development strategies.

To review the limitations and explore opportunities for improving the sustained linkage of PES with the business world.

To reflect on the part played by PES in serving vulnerable populations with greatest employment difficulties, especially in post-crisis periods. This objective is crosscutting.

Organizers:

The Workshop was jointly organized by the Organization of American States (OAS), the World Association of Public Employment Services (WAPES), the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) of Mexico and the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Protection of Argentina. It focused in the relations between PES and enterprises, and it gave continuity to both Hemispheric Workshops on Public Employment Services and intermediation systems that took place in November 2006 and December 2008.

Participants:

Authorities, officers and government experts of the Americas and Europe, International Organizations, and employers’ and workers’ representatives.

Relevant documents:

Attachment	Size
Agenda	562.93 KB
Agenda (French)	572.35 KB
Guiding Questions	428.33 KB
Guide for Panelists and Moderators	436.52 KB
Workshop Guide	798.15 KB
Workshop Guide (French)	891.64 KB
List of Participants	581.5 KB
Results and Conclusions	291.67 KB

Presentations:

Inaugural Session and presentation of workshop

Oscar Maurtua, Representative in Mexico of the Organization of American States (OAS)

Speech

Margarita Laria, Director of the Employment Service, Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security of Argentina

Patrick Venier, Executive Secretary of the World Association of Public Employment Services (WAPES)

Jaime Domingo Lopez Buitron, Under-Secretary for Employment and Labor Productivity, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of Mexico

Framework Conference 1 – The relationship of PES with the business world: recent trends and tools available to employers

International Labor Organization (ILO) - Regina Galhardi, Senior Specialist on Employment Development and Lorenzo Pelaez, Senior Specialist in Employers’ Activities (ACTEMP)

ILO Presentation

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Consuelo Ricart, Senior Specialist in Social Development of the IDB Group in Mexico

IDB Presentation

Q & A Session

Panel 1 – Strategic measures for serving employers

FRANCE - Marion Badenes, Head of Business Services, Public Employment Service / Pôle Emploi

France Presentation

MEXICO - Israel Cuellar Hernandez, Under Secretary for Labor and Social Welfare and Chief of the National Employment Service of the State of Coahuila, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare

Mesico Presentation

PERU - Astrid Sanchez, National Employment Service, Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion

Peru Presentation

Discussion

Panel 2 – Tools for the adequate development of services for employers

GERMANY - Johannes Klapper, Head of International Placement, Public Employment Service, Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit

Germany Presentation

BRAZIL - Sinara Neves Ferreira, Technical Advisor of the Secretariat for Employment Public Policies, Ministry of Labor and Employment

Brazil Presentation

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - by Sarah Pimentel, Director of the National Employment Service, Ministry of Labor

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Molly Runyon, Labor and Social Affairs Officer, United States Embassy in Mexico City, representing the U.S. Department of Labor

USA Presentation

Discussion

Framework Conference 2 – PES in the context of local economic development

International Labor Organization (ILO) - Luis Abad y Jorge Arroyo, Support Program to improve the quality of employment in Argentina (CEA)

ILO Presentation

World Bank - Burt S. Barnow, Consultant and Professor of Public Service and Economics, George Washington University

World Bank Presentation

Q & A Session

Panel 3 – Decentralized PES: The municipal option

SWITZERLAND - Jean-Christophe Lanzeray, Coordinator of Regional Employment Offices, Ministry of Economy / SECO

Switzerland Presentation

ARGENTINA - Margarita Laría, Director of the Employment Service, MLESS

Argentina Presentation

COSTA RICA - Carmen Capuano, Chief of Labor Intermediation and Employment Promotion, Ministry of Labor and Social Security

Costa Rica Presentation

Discussion

Panel 4 – Strategic partnerships to provide effective employment services with the private sector or nongovernmental actors

MANPOWER - Norma Lorena Escobar Ellgutter, Director of Strategic Recruitment and Academic Linkages

Manpower Presentation

Business Technical Advisory Committee on Labor Matters (CEATAL) - Octavio Carvajal, Vicepresident of CEATAL

CEATAL Presentation

Trade Union Technical Advisory Council (COSATE) - Salvador Medina, Vicepresident of COSATE

COSATE Presentation

Discussion

Working Groups Session

Moderator:

WAPES

Presentation of conclusions by the moderators

Panel 1: Patrick Venier, Executive Secretary of WAPES

Panel 2: Alejandro Razo Corona, General Coordinator of the National Employment Service, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of Mexico

Panel 3: Luis Castillo Marin, National Director of Employment Promotion, MLESS of Argentina

Panel 4: María Claudia Camacho, Labor Specialist, Dpt. Social Development & Employment, OAS

Closing remarks

Jaime Domingo Lopez Buitron, Under-Secretary for Employment and Labor Productivity, Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of Mexico