Checklist: Evaluating social dialogue in apprenticeship system

You may use the following checklist to evaluate social dialogue in your country’s apprenticeship system to decide which elements could potentially be strengthened, and to judge whether your system could be described as a Quality Apprenticeship system.

Social Dialogue Yes No

In your country:

   

Do the social partners – employers’ associations and trade unions – enjoy the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining?

   

Are there tripartite and/or bipartite bodies that formulate, implement and monitor regulatory framework and strategy for apprenticeship training?

   

Are the social partners formally involved in the design of apprenticeship systems at national and/or sectoral level?

   

Are the social partners formally involved in the implementation of apprenticeship systems at national and/or sectoral level?

   

Do the social partners have the adequate technical capacity to participate in social dialogue at the national and/or sectoral level on apprenticeship training?

   

Are the social partners formally involved in the accreditation of training institutions?

   

Are the social partners formally involved in the accreditation/ registration of enterprises that train apprentices?

   

If you have answered “no” to any of these questions, it might be worth examining ways in which social dialogue could be strengthened in your country’s apprenticeship system. The involvement of the social partners, in the form of trade unions and employers’ associations, in the design, development and implementation of apprenticeship programmes, is a key factor in the success and sustainability of Quality Apprenticeships.