Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Implementation of policies and programmes of vocational guidance and vocational training. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in December 2008 including observations made by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, LO–Norway. It notes the current process of establishing the Labour Welfare Administration, which, in partnership with the municipal social assistance services, aims at offering “One stop shops” in all municipalities. It further notes that this approach, combined with the new policy strategies and new anti-discrimination legislation, is aimed, inter alia, at combating various forms of discrimination, and is to form the basis for better, more simplified, more personalized and more efficient services, especially for those at the fringes of the labour market. The Committee also notes the new follow-up strategy combined with work-training, starting at the secondary-school level (“The Knowledge Promotion”), capturing unemployed high-school graduates through an increase of labour market training from ten to 16 months and continuing throughout their working life (“Early Intervention for Lifelong Learning”). The Committee looks forward to examining in the Government’s next report information on the effective implementation of the reform of the vocational education and training system, especially in regard to the establishment of the Labour Welfare Administration, so as to ensure that vocational guidance and vocational training policies and programmes take due account of employment needs, opportunities and problems.