TURKISH EMPLOYMENT AGENCY M. Buğra KAZANÇ Employment Expert PROVINCIAL EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING BOARDS (PEVTB)

ABOUT ISKUR 2 Founded in 1946, as the sole public agency on job matching In 2003, in line with emerging needs and changing circumstances, changed as Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) and new services added:  Unemployment Insurance Fund  Effective Active and Passive Labor Market Programs  Sustainability Policies For The Crisis Period In 2011, Job and Vocational Counseling Service accelerated and total number of İŞKUR staff increased from to Number of JVC’s is approximately 4000.

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4 PROVINCIAL EMPLOYMENT AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING BOARDS (PEVTB) The Provincial Employment And Vocational Training Boards are public institutions which are formed at the basis of; Creating and implementing employment and vocational training policies at the provincial level, Preventing unemployment and maintaining/increasing the current employment level Determining the required labor qualification and vocational education at the provincial level.

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEVTB’S In January 1995, the basis of the tripartite structure was founded, namely the Local Labor Councils, served as an early form of PEVTB. Their main function was to determine the number and the type of the labor force training programs. 5

6 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEVTB’S (2) Transition from Local Labor Councils to Provincial Employment Boards (PEB) in October Functions of PEB: Providing assistance to the process of creating employment policies at the local level. Preventing unemployment and maintaining/increasing the current employment level. Providing suggestions to the ISKUR provincial directorate about the labor training courses about all types of unemployed persons and analysing the annual labor training programs.

7 Provincial Employment Boards and Provincial Vocational Training Boards were merged together to form Provincial and Vocational Training Boards in Functions of PEVTB: Creating the employment and vocational education policies at the local level. Defining the preventive measures for tackling unemployment and maintaining/increasing the current employment at the local level. Making labor market analyses. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEVTB’S (3)

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEVTB’S (4) Providing suggestions for shaping the vocational education framework programs in accordance with labor market analyses. Creating the employment and vocational education policies at the local level. Analysing and evaluating the views and suggestions from other organisations regarding vocational education, labor force and employment. Approving the plans labor training programs and evaluating the results. 8

THE BOARD MEMBERS PEVTB boards are consisted of the members from the following bodies: Governor – as the head of the board Mayor ISKUR Provincial Director (also as the secretariat of the board) Representative from Provincial Directorate of National Education Representative from The Confederation For Disabled Persons Representative from Chambers of Industry and Commerce Representative from Universities Representative from Development Agencies Representative from Union of Chamber of Merchants and Craftsmen Representative from Provincial Directorate of Customs and Trade Representative from Provincial Directorate of Science, Industry and Technology Representatives from employers and employees association confederations 9

PEVTB Regular meetings are held every January, April, July and October. Special meetings may be held depending on the urgent needs. Plans and actions will be devised/discussed during the meeting about the current situation and the needs of the labor market at the provincial level. Decisions taken at the meeting will be obligatory for all relevant bodies to implement. 10

ANNUAL REPORTS PEVTB’s on every province prepare reports about their annual activities each year and send their reports to the general directorate. General Directorate analyses each report separately and prepares the annual PEVTB Activity Report. The report is published and sent to all relevant bodies and uploaded into the main web-site for public accessibility. 11

12 PEVTB - STRUCTURAL LEVELS PEVTB Executive Board Supervisory Board(s)

EXECUTIVE BOARD The executive organ of the PEVTB. Consists of 5 members. 1 from ISKUR, 1 from Provincial Directorate of National Education, and 3 from other PEVTB members. Meetings are held at least once a month. 13

FUNCTIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD Setting the agenda of the regular PEVTB meetings. Implementing the decisions of the PEVTB’s about making Labor Market Analyses. Specifying the suggestions to improve the employment and vocational training conditions at the local level in accordance with Labor Market Analyses. Identifying vocational training policies for PEVTB’s to work on. 14

SUPERVISORY BOARDS Monitoring/evaluating/supervising Active Labor Market Programs (i.e. on the job trainings and vocational trainings). 2 members: 1 from ISKUR, 1 from other PEVTB member organizations. Multiple supervisory boards may be formed for different types of ALMPs. 15

SUPERVISORY AGENDAS Monthly supervisory agendas are prepared by the ISKUR Provincial Directorate. Agendas are sent to the PEVTB head of the board – governor – for approval. In the event of getting complaints or reports about illegal activities additional inspections may be held. 16

17 PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS No executive organ were present in the implementation of board decisions. Solution: Executive Boards were formed in 2006 – during the period of Provincial Employment Boards (PEB). No supervisory organs were present. Solution: Supervisory Boards were formed in 2008 – as the PEVTB were newly formed. The number of the regular meetings were insufficient. (once a year) Solution: The regular meeting are hold once in every three months.

18 PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS (2) The lack of social partners in the Boards. Solution: The number of participants from the social partners were increased significantly starting with the PEB. With PEVTB, it grew even larger. Finally with the new legislation in 2011, the frame of social partnership increased further, by the inclusion of new partners (i.e. Development agencies). Women in labor market were not represented sufficiently in the boards. Solution: By a circular promulgated by the Prime Ministry, women NGO’s were to be invited to PEVTB regular meetings.

CONCLUSION PEVTB’s are one of the key decision making bodies of ISKUR. They are the main tools of preventing unemployment and shaping the labor markets optimally at the local level. They serve as a connection between local authorities and NGO’s. They function both as a decision making body and a social dialogue mechanism. They enable policy making at local level. 19

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