Chapter IV Enhancement of Vocational Training
第四章 職業訓練等の充実
Article 16Enhancement of Vocational Training
第十六条（職業訓練の充実）
The national government is to actively take the necessary measures to enhance vocational training, such as developing vocational training facilities, enhancing vocational training programs, researching and developing vocational training methods, and training and securing vocational training instructors and improving their qualities.
国は、職業訓練施設の整備、職業訓練の内容の充実及び方法の研究開発、職業訓練指導員の養成確保及び資質の向上等職業訓練を充実するために必要な施策を積極的に講ずるものとする。
The national government must endeavor to ensure that vocational training conducted by public human resources development facilities is closely associated with vocational training conducted by employers or organizations to which employers belong, in order to facilitate the effective development and improvement of workers' vocational skills.
国は、労働者の職業能力の開発及び向上が効果的に図られるようにするため、公共職業能力開発施設が行う職業訓練と事業主又はその団体が行う職業訓練とが相互に密接な関連の下で行われるように努めなければならない。
Article 17Enhancement of Vocational Abilities Testing System
第十七条（職業能力検定制度の充実）
The national government must endeavor to help workers develop and improve their vocational skills, ensure workers' employment security, and improve workers' economic and social status by establishing proper standards for vocational skills evaluation and establishing and enhancing a system for testing workers' vocational abilities based on standards determined in cooperation with employers' associations and other relevant parties and in consideration of advances in technology, the vocational ability level required for workers to smoothly find new employment, and other circumstances.
国は、技術の進歩の状況、円滑な再就職のために必要な職業能力の水準その他の事情を考慮して、事業主団体その他の関係者の協力の下に、職業能力の評価のための適正な基準を設定し、これに準拠して労働者の有する職業能力の程度を検定する制度を確立し、及びその充実を図ることにより、労働者の職業能力の開発及び向上、職業の安定並びに経済的社会的地位の向上を図るように努めるものとする。