The Minister of Employment and Vocational Training is responsible for drawing up and implementing the Government's policy on employment, vocational training and vocational integration. In this capacity, the Minister is responsible for:
- Drawing up employment and vocational training policy
- Studies on the evolution of employment and the labour market
- Studies on the evolution of job qualifications
- Promotion of employment
- Definition of vocational training and vocational integration programmes, in liaison with the Administrations and Bodies concerned
- Definition of the organisational standards for apprenticeship and vocational qualification systems, and monitoring of their application
- Design and organisation of short-cycle training activities
- Guidance and placement of the workforce
- Organisation and follow-up of the vocational integration of trained young people
- Organisation of retraining or reskilling activities for workers in employment and those who have lost their jobs
- Monitoring of the match between training and employment
- Relations with enterprises and professional organisations, in liaison with the sectoral Ministerial Departments concerned
- Monitoring and control of vocational training institutions, in liaison with the Ministerial Departments concerned
- Monitoring of the activities of bodies involved in job prospecting
- Supervision of the National Employment Fund (FNE)
