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The Committee notes the brief indications supplied by the Government in reply to its previous direct requests. It would be grateful if, in its next report, the Government would provide full information on the following points:

1. The Committee notes that the Government states that it has improved the system of information on Jordanian and immigrant labour. Please describe the measures taken to collect and analyse statistical data on employment. Please provide detailed information on the volume and distribution of labour, the nature and extent of unemployment and underemployment and the trends in these areas.

2. In its previous comments, the Committee drew the Government's attention to the trends in the imbalances between labour supply and demand, particularly in the context of the implementation of a structural adjustment plan. According to information supplied by the competent departments of the ILO, these imbalances have shown an alarming further downward trend owing, in particular, to the return en masse of Jordanian and Palestinian migrant workers, and unemployment probably affects almost 25 per cent of the active population. Please describe the effects of the return of these workers in terms of labour and employment, and the measures taken to encourage their reintegration into the national labour market. The Government indicates that in order to promote the employment of nationals, it has undertaken to limit the access of immigrant workers to employment in the various sectors of activity. Please specify the nature of the measures aimed at gradually replacing immigrant labour by national labour and provide information on how they are applied in practice. In this connection the Committee draws the Government's attention to the relevant provisions of part X of the Employment Policy (Supplementary Provisions) Recommendation, 1984 (No. 169).

3. The Government indicates that the Development and Employment Fund has embarked on action to support income- and employment-generating projects. Please provide information on the objectives and operation of the Fund and on the results obtained. The Government indicates that it has undertaken to develop training centres to conduct training programmes for new occupations, providing occupational training for more than 10,000 trainees in 1990 and more than 14,000 trainees in 1991. Please provide information on the nature of the occupational training programmes, and the number and category of the participants. Please provide information on measures to coordinate education and training policies with prospective employment opportunities, taking into account the relevant provisions of Convention No. 142 and the Committee's comments on the application of that Convention.

4. Please indicate how the representatives of the persons affected are consulted on employment policies, in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention.

5. With reference to its previous direct requests, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the action that has been taken as a result of ILO technical cooperation projects in the fields of employment policy and human resources development planning, and any factors which may have prevented or delayed such action (part V of the report form).