Denise N. Brambilla GonzalesLabor Law Enforcement Auditor

Coordinator of the Project Inclusion of Apprentices in the Labor Market of the Regional Labor and Employment Office of Rio Grande do Sul(SRTE-RS)

Hourly minimum wage Vacation 13th salary Transportation voucher Social security protection Monitoring by the training organization Monitoring by a monitor FGTS (Worker's Severance Fund) Provision of a Professional Apprenticeship/Training course Record in the employment card (CTPS) Compulsory enrollment and attendance at a regular school Possibility of being actually hired after the apprenticeship period

INCOME

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

DIGNITY

# BRASIL:

Potential workers: 965,000Hired workers: 381,000 (39%)

*Reference: RAIS (Annual Social Information List) and CAGED (General Register of Employed and Unemployed Workers)/2016. Minimum quota of 5%

Art. 23-A. A hiring organization whose specific activity orworkplaces do not offer an appropriate environment for thedelivery of practical classes can, apart from delivering suchclasses exclusively at the facilities of a qualified professionaltechnical training organization, contact the respectivedecentralized unit of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare tosign a term of commitment to comply with the quota at anentity specialized in providing practical experience toapprentices.

Paragraph 2 - The following are considered entitiesspecialized in providing practical experience to apprentices:

I - public agencies;II - civil society organizations, as defined in art. 2 of Law No.13,019 of July 31, 2014; andIII - units of the National System of Socio-Educational Services- Sinase.

Paragraph 5 - Apprentices shall be selected from the public employment registeravailable at the More Employment (Mais Emprego) portal and their selection shallgive priority to the inclusion of youth and adolescents in situations of vulnerabilityor social risk, such as:

I - adolescents released from the socio-educational system or serving socio-educational measures;II - young people serving a sentence in prison;III - young people and adolescents whose families are beneficiaries of cashtransfer programs;IV - young people and adolescents in institutional sheltering situations;V - young people and adolescents removed from child labor;VI - young people and adolescents with disabilities;VII - young people and adolescents enrolled in an elementary, secondary ortechnical-vocational public school, including in the Youth and Adult Educationmodality; and,VIII - unemployed youths who completed elementary or secondary education in thepublic school system.

Company: Grupo prol Start date: 2016 Target audience: Young people in the 16-21 age bracket

living in communities in the north and west zones of Rio de Janeiro and in the Baixada Fluminense district of the city

Number of young people: 200 young apprentices and 300 youths from the communities attending free courses

Training entity: Instituto Transforma de educação técnica e profissional

Course: Administrative Assistant

“I am very pleased to be taking part in a project like this, whichbesides providing me with a great apprenticeship opportunity makesit possible for me to advance in the labor market, with excellentprofessionals. It gives us a chance to interact with and to learn how todeal with other people facing completely different realities.” (Diogo)

“The project is extremely important for us young people who are justentering the labor market, as it provides a basis for all theprofessional aspects we need to be aware of, such as how to behave,speak, relate to each other. I feel proud and privileged to be takingpart in the project and to have the opportunity to qualify myself as aprofessional.” (Victória)

Companies: Set of 9 companies, most of which operate in the outsourcing industry

Start date: 2016Number of young people: 455 Practical apprenticeship site: Olympic and Paralympic

Games Training entity: Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro

Companies: Set of 4 companies, all of which operate in the outsourcing industry

Tentative start date: March 2017 Number of young people: 405 youths Profile: Young people serving socio-educational measures in confinement and

semi-confinement in a detention center Practical apprenticeship site: DEGASE Courses: Individual micro entrepreneur (MEI), pizza chef, administrative

assistant, photographer, computer operator, barber, manicure/pedicure, sales promoter

Training entity: Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, ISBET and CIEDs

Graduation at the central prison

Companies should be offered some kind of taxexemption to hire young people and adolescents insocially vulnerable situations, such as:

Adolescents removed from child laborAdolescents serving socio-educational measuresAdolescents in shelters

◦ Training of young professionals;

◦ Reduction in the number of young people dependent on government to the minimum necessary

◦ Competition with illegal ways of earning an income

◦ Reduction in the school dropout rate

Email: DeniseN@mte.gov.br

PHONE: +55 51 32132866