Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

The Committee notes the fact that the tripartite agreement reached in December 1997 will ensure that vocational training and guidance will become the principal means of promoting employment, improving the quality of employment and improving productivity. The Committee refers to its comments on the application of the Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) and the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), and requests the Government to provide in its next report on the application of Convention No. 142 information on the following points:

1. Please provide information on the application of the tripartite agreement of 1997 and on the activities of the INCE to ensure that vocational guidance and training are closely linked to employment, in particular through public employment services, in accordance with Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention.

2. Please indicate whether progress has been made in the application of the provisions of Article 3, paragraph 3, of the Convention.

3. Please provide information on the manner in which systems of vocational guidance (Article 3) are being gradually extended, including data on the application of the Convention to the population groups referred to in Part VI of the report form.