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First Meeting of the Working Groups within the framework of the XIII IACML - 2004

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First Meeting of the Working Groups within the framework of the XIII IACML – 2004
•  Workshop
•  Group I
•  Joint Meeting of Groups I and II
•  Group II
•  Reports
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2004 Meeting of the Working Groups of the XIII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour (IACML)

Date : May 11 - 14, 2004

Location : General Secretariat Building of the OAS - 1889 F St. NW, Washington D.C., Room Padilha Vidal.

Purpose : This meeting addresses the following objectives:

•  To participate in an informative workshop on "The Impact of Trade and Integration on Labour" on May 11.

•  To take action on tasks assigned by the Salvador Declaration and Plan of Action to Working Group 1: Labour Dimensions of the Summit of the Americas Process and Working Group 2: Building Capacities of Labour Ministries ; which will meet between May 12 and 14.

Reports:

• Report of Working Group 1

• Report of Working Group 2

• Report of the Joing Meeting of WG1 and WG2

• Report of the Workshop on the Impacts of Trade and Integration on Labour

Agenda

Documents:

Workshop on the Impacts of Trade and Integration on Labour
May 11, 2004

Welcome Remarks

•  Julio Rosales, Ministry of Labor of Argentina (Spanish)

•  Jorge Perez-Lopez, Department of Labor of the United States

Report of the Troika on presentations to the FTAA Ministerial

•  Presentation by Minister Wagner of Brazil (Portuguese)

•  Presentation by Minister Bradshaw of Canada

•  Presentation by Minister Abascal of Mexico

Panel on Framing the Discussion

•  Presentation by Juan Manuel Salazar of the Trade Unit of the OAS (Spanish)

•  Presentation by Pablo Lazo of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile

Panel on Treatment of Labour in Free Trade Agreements

•  Presentation by Cesar Castillo of the Ministry of Labour of Guatemala on the Central America Free Trade Agreement (Spanish)

Presentation by Eduardo Velasquillo of the Secretariat of Labour and Social Protection of Mexico on the North America Free Trade Agreement (Spanish)

Panel on Implications of Globalization and Integration for the Informal Sector

•  Presentation by William Maloney of the World Bank

•  Background Document by William Maloney of the World Bank

•  Presentation by Victor Tokman of the Presidency of Chile

Panel on Assessing the Labour Market Impacts of Integration

•  Presentation by Michael Abbott of the North American Commission for Labour Cooperation

•  Presentation by Raquel Artecona of ECLAC

Working Group 1
May 12-13, 2004

Introduction to WG1

•  Remarks by Julio Rosales, Ministry of Labor of Argentina (Spanish)

Recent activities of the OAS

•  Presentation by Sofialeticia Morales, Unit for Social Development and Education of the OAS

  • Declaration of Nuevo León, Summit of the Americas in Monterrey (.pdf)

  • Remarks by Carmen Lomellin, Inter-American Committee of Women of the OAS

    ILO World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization

    •  http://www.ilo.org/wcsdg

    •  Presentation by Virgilio Levaggi, Regional Specialist, ILO Regional Office, Lima

    Discussion of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Report "Good Jobs Wanted" by Gustavo Marquez, Principal Labour Advisor, IDB

    •  Presentation

    •  Link to IPES 2004: Good Jobs Wanted: Labor Markets in Latin America

    ILO Studies of Labour Provisions of Sub-Regional Integration Agreements by Maria Luz Vega, Specialist on the Declaration of Principles and Rights, ILO Geneva

    •  Presentation

    •  Document

    •  Remarks from Lewis Karesh of the National Administrative Office on the NAALC Study

    •  Presentation by Sandra Chacon of the Ministry of Labour of Costa Rica on the SICA Study

    Mercosur Regional Conference on Employment, April 2004

    •  Presentation by Daniel Kostzer of the Ministry of Labour of Argentina (Spanish)

    Analysis of ILO-MERCOSUR Study on Decent Work by Virgilio Levaggi, Regional Specialist, ILO Regional Office, Lima

    •  Presentation

    •  Document

    Brazil's Proposal on an Inter-American Fund for the Promotion of Decent Work

    •  Proposal

    •  Presentation by Nilton Freitas, Ministry of Labour and Employment Brazil (Portuguese)

    Joint Meeting of Working Group 1 & 2
    May 13, 2004

  • Advancements on the Feasibility Study for an Inter-American Cooperation Mechanism for Professional Labour Administration by experts

  • Presentation made by the experts

    Working Group 2
    May 13-14, 2004

    Presentation of two-year work plan

    Horizontal cooperation to Support Modernization of Labour Ministries

    •  Presentation by Sofialeticia Morales, Director of the Unit for Social Development and Education of the OAS on the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Workshop in El Salvador

    Proposal by SISMEL

    •  Annex A

    •  Annex B

    •  Annex C

    •  Annex D

    Challenges, lessons learned and advances on the conditions to achieve sustainable capacity building, by Leonardo Neves, Principal Technical Coordination of the ILO-IACML Project

    •  Document

    •  Presentation

    Alternative Dispute Resolution

    •  Presentation by Mariluz Vega of ILO

    •  Presentation by Arnold Powers of Canada

    •  Presentation by Victor Felix of Barbados

    •  Document by Victor Felix of Barbados

    •  Presentation by Jorge Nieto of El Salvador

    •  Presentation by Pablo Veloso of Chile

    Workshop on Effective Employment Services

    •  Project of the Workshop