In this article we discuss the initial and continuing training of workers who will be assigned the less complex tasks in the workplace. We analyze the performance of such initial and continuing training - terminology used in the Executive Education Act 9494/96 - in Brazil nowadays. The Ministry of Labor made such training feasible through the National Training Plan (Plano Nacional de Qualificação - PNQ). We also discuss the training that aims at generating income and overcoming the condition of "assisted". Such training is called productive insertion, and it takes place in the Reference Centers for Social Assistance (Centros de Referência da Assistência Social - CRAS), affiliated to the Ministry of Social Development.
Education; Labor; Social services; Workers' training
