Workplace Training and Social Security Benefits

Workplace Training Modalities and Requirements

The training provided through this modality will be organized into groups of a maximum of 25 participants. In training provided through distance learning or tele-conventional methods, there must be at least one tutor for every 80 participants. Competent authorities may, within their respective fields of management, authorize a smaller number of participants than those indicated in the preceding paragraph, according to the nature or content of the training, or the groups to which it is addressed. Training, both theoretical and practical, should be conducted in classrooms, workshops, and appropriate facilities, in accordance with the stipulations of the relevant program.

Worker Participation in Training

A worker's participation in training may not exceed eight hours daily.

Centers and Training Institutions

The following entities can provide vocational training for employment:

a) Public authorities responsible for vocational training for employment, through their own facilities or through agreements with public bodies or companies that can provide training. The following are considered as their own centers:

1. The National Reference Centers
2. The Integrated Vocational Training Centers
3. Other government centers that have adequate facilities and equipment for vocational training for employment

Entities Authorized to Provide Vocational Training

• Business and labor organizations.
• Companies developing training activities for unemployed workers or contracting with commitment. They can do this through their own means, provided they have appropriate equipment for this purpose, or through external recruitment.
• The Integrated Vocational Training Centers.
• Schools or training institutions providing training not aimed at obtaining professional licenses, provided they are enrolled in the registry established by the competent authority.

Work and Training for Employment

Work and training for employment is composed of the training activities of training contracts and public employment programs, allowing the worker to combine training with practice in the workplace.

Voluntary Improvements to Social Security Benefits

Voluntary Improvements

Direct improvement of benefits: These are defined as economic amounts that employers must pay the worker, usually when the worker begins receiving benefits from the Social Security system. These amounts complement those received from Social Security. Unlike indirect improvements, which increase benefits by raising the contribution base or rate, direct improvements directly complement the benefit amount.

Main Characteristics of Direct Improvements

• Voluntariness of establishment.
• Complementarity, as they complement the protective action of the Social Security system.
• Compulsory: Despite their voluntary nature in terms of implementation, once an employee has earned the right to a benefit, it cannot be annulled or reduced. This signifies a consolidation of rights.
• Private management.
• Collective or individual nature with regard to their recipients.

Although generally established through collective bargaining, they can also be initiated unilaterally by the employer, by contract, or by agreement.

Content Coverage of Direct Improvements

Companies can freely improve one or more of the benefits for temporary disability, old age, permanent disability, death, and survival from illness or non-work-related accidents, and unemployment. Thus, we can distinguish between:

a. - Additions to permanent disability benefits. Voluntary improvements will complete the percentage of the benefit above the legally established amount, which shall be borne by the company, or sometimes as a form of reparation related to the contingency. Most companies provide aid for death and disability.