In order to evaluate the situation of the employment; the Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare, Javier Lozano Alarcón, participates in the Summit of Ministers of Labor of the G20, to be celebrated in Washington, D.C., April 20th and 21st. This allow him to interchange experiences concerning policies to surpass the economic crisis, as well as programs to improve the capacities of the workers, and to analyze the lesson left by the 2009 crisis.

The G-20, influential group of countries was founded in 1999 by the seven most industrialized countries (Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom), in addition to Russia, and the eleven countries recently industrialized of all the regions of the world (Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey), as well as the European Union, like a block. This time the G-20 brings together the Ministers of Labor to analyze, as a group, the applicable strategies for the medium and long terms in the matter of employment, in order to impel the recovery, as well as the solid and sustainable growth.

The secretary Lozano Alarcón participates in this encounter that is carried out in accordance to the agreements achieved by the Leaders of the G-20 in their last summit celebrated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September of 2009.

In this encounter, presided by the Secretary of Labor of the United States, Hilda Solis, the Ministers will discuss the policies and programs that the countries of the G-20 is encouraging to protect and to promote employment after the world-wide financial crisis registered the past year. These practices, considered as successful, are integrated in a report elaborated by the International Labour Organization (ILO), with support of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

In the case of Mexico, the following topics will be emphasized:

At the request of the Leaders of the G20, the ILO elaborated a training strategy, in order to give more benefits to workers from an economy in recovery. In the study, the ILO emphasizes the program of Scholarships for Job Training (BECATE), the technical preparation through the National School of Professional Technical Education (CONALEP) and the National Council of Normalization and Certification of Labor Competitions (CONOCER).

In their sessions, the Ministers of Labor will discuss three main subjects:

The Secretary Javier Lozano will be the speaker in the last session, in which he will set out that it is important for the countries to send structural reforms to impel the productivity and the competitiveness in a globalised world. In this sense, the labor reform looks to offer more opportunities of decent work to the population, to establish the productivity as the basis of a sustainable economic growth, to improve the competitiveness of our economy, and to increase the income of workers.