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The Committee takes note of the Government's report for the period ending June 1988 and of the statistical information and other documents concerning the situation of the labour market, forwarded in connection with its previous comments. On the basis of this information, along with the information contained in the latest OECD report "Employment Prospects" (July 1989), the Committee notes in particular the following trends: an increase in employment, apparently due essentially to the increase in part-time employment, stability in the unemployment rate (7.4 per cent) though with a slight increase in 1988-89, a large proportion of long-term unemployed (42 per cent of total unemployed), an unemployment rate of 25 per cent among young people of 14 to 24 years of age.

In its report, the Government indicates the measures taken to improve the employment situation in the public sector (Act No. 1735 of 1987) and to secure free negotiation of standards, working conditions and the remuneration of employees since 1 January 1988. Measures have also been adopted by the Manpower Employment Office (OAED) to generate employment for people with specific needs. The Committee hopes that the Government will provide regular detailed reports, containing indications as to the impact of the above measures on the employment market. It recalls that the preparation of a full report on the Convention may require consultation with ministries or government agencies other than those responsible for labour matters. It also asks the Government to refer in its next report to the following points:

1. Please describe the principal employment policy measures currently being implemented and the relationships between employment policy objectives and other economic and social objectives. Please describe the general and sectoral development policies and the procedures adopted to ensure that the effects on employment of measures taken to promote economic development or other economic and social objectives receive due consideration, at both the planning and the implementation stages (Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention).

2. Please describe and evaluate the measures planned by the Manpower Employment Office (OAED) to meet the needs of particular categories of workers such as women, young people, long-term unemployed adults, migrant workers.

3. Please provide information on measures to adjust labour to structural changes, particularly in connection with the measures to restructure state enterprises which are being studied or implemented by the Office for the Restructuring of Enterprises (OAE).

4. Please provide additional information on policies and measures concerning balanced regional development, if possible with an assessment of their impact with regard to the promotion of the objectives set out in Article 1 of the Convention. Part VII of Recommendation No. 169 appended to the report form may be a useful reference in this connection.

5. The Committee notes with interest the proposal to establish a national council for vocational training and a labour institute. Please provide indications on any developments in the legislation and on the measures taken or under consideration to co-ordinate education and training policies with employment prospects.

6. The Committee takes note of the measures adopted to ensure productive work in the public sector. Please provide general information on the measures adopted to ensure that work is as productive as possible in the other sectors of the economy. Please also indicate the action taken as a result of the preparatory mission conducted by an ILO expert, referred to by the Government in its report, to inform the appropriate officials of the Ministry of Labour on the question of linking remuneration for work with productivity.

7. Please provide more detailed information on the way in which the OAED takes account of the experience and views of the representatives of the persons concerned, including, for example, representatives of persons working in the rural sector, in the preparation and implementation of employment policy (Article 3).