With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to vocational training, the Contracting Parties undertake:
- 1.to provide or promote, as necessary, the technical and vocational training of all persons, including the handicapped, in consultation with employers' and workers' organisations, and to grant facilities for access to higher technical and university education, based solely on individual aptitude;
- 2.to provide or promote a system of apprenticeship and other systematic arrangements for training young boys and girls in their various employments;
- 3.to provide or promote, as necessary:
- (a)adequate and readily available training facilities for adult workers;
- (b)special facilities for the re-training of adult workers needed as a result of technological development or new trends in employment;
- 4.to encouraige the full utilisation of the facilities provided by appropriate measures such as:
- (a)reducing or abolishing any fees or charges;
- (b)granting financial assistance in appropriate cases;
- (c)including in the normal working hours time spent on supplementary training taken by the worker, at the request of his employer, during employment;
- (d)ensuring, through adequate supervision, in consultation with the employers' and workers' organisations, the efficiency of apprenticeship and other training arrangements for young workers, and equate protection of young workers generally.
