El Salvador's National Association of Private Enterprise worked with labor and government representatives in the Forum for Economic and Social Cooperation to prepare new standards for employer-employee relations. These united efforts allow business groups to leverage their influence over the policymaking process. Organizations need to focus on business opportunities. Through a broad range of periodicals, seminars and meetings, business organizations maintain communication with their members. Business associations in the region offer a range of information to their members, including updates on business opportunities, economic analyses, and information on commercial laws and regulations and on general economic policy issues such as economic integration, privatization and social legislation.
Many organizations play a pivotal role in worker-training programs.
Business groups in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay play a key role in national apprenticeship and working-training programs, which are funded by payroll taxes. Organizations across Latin America support research institutes or university programs that focus on worker or management training. One example of this is the support Bolivia's Confederation of Private Businesspersons for the Institute gives the Development of Entrepreneurs and Administrators, which offers management training programs. In 1993, the institute sponsored over 400 activities with a total of 11,500 participants. Few groups directly promote a more positive image of the private sector.