Employers of enterprises of any size and sector are at the helm of strategies that improve living standards through employment creation.  Employers’ organizations provide the requisite services that improve and guide the successful performance of individual enterprises while helping to shape an overall operating environment conducive to enterprises for their competitiveness and sustainability. Employers’ organizations unify the voice of the business community they represent to contribute the employers’ perspective to economic and social development objectives, a critical component on national and regional agendas.
   With technical support of the ILO’s Bureau for Employers’ Activities, national employers’ organizations have been strengthening their capacities to effectively meet the demands of their member enterprises and actively participate as major partners in the social dialogue process together with government and worker representatives.   Key areas in which employers’ organizations of the Caribbean are actively involved are:

• contributing to updating of labour legislation and policies in line with international labour standards,
 

• delivering training in modern techniques in industrial relations and human resources management,
 

• providing advisory services in occupational safety and health; gender equality; corporate social responsibility; HIV/AIDS; skills for employability; productivity improvement; small enterprise development.