REFLEXÕES SOBRE A PREPARAÇÃO E INSERÇÃO DOS JOVENS APRENDIZES NO MERCADO DE TRABALHO NO MUNICÍPIO DE PONTA GROSSA - PR TENDO COMO PARÂMETRO O TRABALHO DECENTE

Abstract

Working has a social importance that goes beyond sustenance and survival to the working class. However, in the last decades, the world of work has suffered importantly changes as precariousness, outsourcing and rights flexibility. In front of these circumstances, the access and permanence in the world of work are seen as a challenge. Yet, to youngsters who are inside the more underprivileged class, this challenge is expressive, once they are part of a vulnerable portion of society that heavily suffers from the world of work reorganization effects. This research aims at understanding the process of preparation and insertion of young people in the world of work in Ponta Grossa (PR), through the public policy of professional qualifications. The youngster’s insertion in the labor market is thought having as a reference the parameters of the Decent Work. Thus, the insertion in the labor market is not enough, it´s necessary to be worth, safe and with free conditions, as says the third priority from Agenda Nacional do Trabalho Decente para a Juventude no Brasil (ANTDJ). And so, aiming at identifying which professional qualification courses are offered by the public policy concerning to the researched local, it was done a mapping of the courses. According to the data collected and having as a parameter the third priority of ANTDJ, it was established as the chosen part of the research the qualification offered by the law: Learning Law n. 10.097 (that was amended by the decree n. 5.598/2005), since it provides theoretical/practice learning, inserting apprentices into the labor marked, in a ruled form, in order to improve students’ practical part. Searching for comprehending the way it is structured the professional qualification by means of the Learning Law, it was done semi structured interviews with professional qualification course managers by means of mapping. Thereby, it was possible to verify that professional qualification coming from the public policy, in the context of the research, with very few exceptions, is directed towards specific professional training with low complexity, reproducing the historical division between the ones qualified to do simple activities and the ones qualified to act in more intellectualized areas. In what regards to the qualification which comes from the Learning Law, it was possible to identify that, even relating to restrictions concerning to training areas and the difficulty in the implementation, the qualifications provide a worth and safe insertion, and it is a mechanism that contributes to achieve the parameters of Decent Work.