Focus on the National Employment Strategy 2014-2017.
28 November 2012
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The 2014-2017 National Employment Strategy will use a multidisciplinary and participatory approach and aims to gradually reduce the overall unemployment rate by 6 to 8% over 4 years, highlights a document distributed during the study day on the preliminary project of the national employment strategy.
It also aims to promote job creation while respecting the interests of both parties (employer and employee), to distribute jobs according to the needs and potential of the regions and to reduce the disparity between categories (young people, graduates and women) by focusing on those at risk of social exclusion.
The national employment strategy will be based on the establishment of a new development model in which employment and decent work are the primary objectives.
In this context, it is a question of defining the role of the State and the public sector in driving employment, creating massive and quality jobs, particularly for women and young people and those at risk of social exclusion, and orienting the development model towards high value-added sectors.
It also involves defining a migration policy, putting in place a legal and institutional system of public-private and cooperative partnership and improving the business climate by removing legal, institutional and other obstacles, in addition to establishing standards of transparency, good governance and spreading a culture of competitiveness.
Furthermore, it is a question of adopting structural reforms of monetary, banking and financial policy that promote the dynamism of the labor market.
Emphasis will also be placed, the document stresses, on the need to mitigate the centralizing economic policy by exploiting all existing investment opportunities and seeking other regional potentials in order to create the maximum number of employment pools at the local level while focusing on the situation of women in the regions.
It is also necessary to establish a new system for the enhancement of skills aimed at achieving a match between the output of the education, vocational training and higher education system and the demand for qualifications by businesses and the entire productive system.
This necessarily implies a training system that is compatible and adapted to the evolving needs of the national economy and countries needing Tunisian skills, and the establishment of a cooperative partnership based on reciprocal commitments between economic enterprises and training centers.
The document emphasizes the need to provide training institutions with the necessary resources to meet quality standards and ensure the international recognition of certificates, to orient the training system towards employment and employability, to spread the culture of self-employment, autonomy and leadership, to create a national, exhaustive and evolving nomenclature of professions and skills and to establish a directory of standardized jobs based on those in partner countries.
The national strategy also relies on the rationalization of labor relations through the establishment of a legal and institutional framework capable of guaranteeing respect for the law by the parties concerned and offering the possibility of amicable settlement of disputes. This contributes to maintaining the stability of the company, strengthening productivity and establishing a business climate conducive to investment.
It is also a question of reviewing labor legislation in order to reconcile the flexibility of labor relations and the protection of workers' rights under international conventions and to conclude a social contract between the government, the UGTT and the UTICA (scheduled for January 2013).
Among the axes of this strategy is the revision of the structure and attributions of the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment so that this institution is transformed into a cross-cutting ministry that benefits from a right of oversight and real intervention in all matters relating to employment issues.
According to this strategy, public employment services must play the role of a true regulator of the labor market by carrying out professional intermediation close to its clients and providing support and operational assistance to job seekers.
The national employment strategy provides for in-depth reflection on the informal economy. The objective is to reconcile the requirement to regulate the informal economy without jeopardizing its dynamism in the labor market.
Regarding the legal framework, the national employment strategy will be compatible with the various conventions ratified by Tunisia relating to employment and work.
The new territorial distribution, economic policy, development policy, the principles inherent in fundamental rights and freedoms relating to work are issues that are closely linked to the national employment strategy.
Similarly, the legal reforms currently being developed are an integral part of the national employment strategy. This includes, in particular, the new investment code.
The national employment strategy will be announced on December 17.
TAP
Espacemanager.com
Published on November 21, 2012.
Posted online on November 28, 2012.
It also aims to promote job creation while respecting the interests of both parties (employer and employee), to distribute jobs according to the needs and potential of the regions and to reduce the disparity between categories (young people, graduates and women) by focusing on those at risk of social exclusion.
The national employment strategy will be based on the establishment of a new development model in which employment and decent work are the primary objectives.
In this context, it is a question of defining the role of the State and the public sector in driving employment, creating massive and quality jobs, particularly for women and young people and those at risk of social exclusion, and orienting the development model towards high value-added sectors.
It also involves defining a migration policy, putting in place a legal and institutional system of public-private and cooperative partnership and improving the business climate by removing legal, institutional and other obstacles, in addition to establishing standards of transparency, good governance and spreading a culture of competitiveness.
Furthermore, it is a question of adopting structural reforms of monetary, banking and financial policy that promote the dynamism of the labor market.
Emphasis will also be placed, the document stresses, on the need to mitigate the centralizing economic policy by exploiting all existing investment opportunities and seeking other regional potentials in order to create the maximum number of employment pools at the local level while focusing on the situation of women in the regions.
It is also necessary to establish a new system for the enhancement of skills aimed at achieving a match between the output of the education, vocational training and higher education system and the demand for qualifications by businesses and the entire productive system.
This necessarily implies a training system that is compatible and adapted to the evolving needs of the national economy and countries needing Tunisian skills, and the establishment of a cooperative partnership based on reciprocal commitments between economic enterprises and training centers.
The document emphasizes the need to provide training institutions with the necessary resources to meet quality standards and ensure the international recognition of certificates, to orient the training system towards employment and employability, to spread the culture of self-employment, autonomy and leadership, to create a national, exhaustive and evolving nomenclature of professions and skills and to establish a directory of standardized jobs based on those in partner countries.
The national strategy also relies on the rationalization of labor relations through the establishment of a legal and institutional framework capable of guaranteeing respect for the law by the parties concerned and offering the possibility of amicable settlement of disputes. This contributes to maintaining the stability of the company, strengthening productivity and establishing a business climate conducive to investment.
It is also a question of reviewing labor legislation in order to reconcile the flexibility of labor relations and the protection of workers' rights under international conventions and to conclude a social contract between the government, the UGTT and the UTICA (scheduled for January 2013).
Among the axes of this strategy is the revision of the structure and attributions of the Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment so that this institution is transformed into a cross-cutting ministry that benefits from a right of oversight and real intervention in all matters relating to employment issues.
According to this strategy, public employment services must play the role of a true regulator of the labor market by carrying out professional intermediation close to its clients and providing support and operational assistance to job seekers.
The national employment strategy provides for in-depth reflection on the informal economy. The objective is to reconcile the requirement to regulate the informal economy without jeopardizing its dynamism in the labor market.
Regarding the legal framework, the national employment strategy will be compatible with the various conventions ratified by Tunisia relating to employment and work.
The new territorial distribution, economic policy, development policy, the principles inherent in fundamental rights and freedoms relating to work are issues that are closely linked to the national employment strategy.
Similarly, the legal reforms currently being developed are an integral part of the national employment strategy. This includes, in particular, the new investment code.
The national employment strategy will be announced on December 17.
TAP
Espacemanager.com
Published on November 21, 2012.
Posted online on November 28, 2012.
