Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

1. Contribution of the public employment service to the promotion of employment. The Committee notes the detailed information on the functioning of the National Employment Service provided by the Government in August 2007 in reply to its observation of 2005. The Committee notes that the 31 offices which comprise the National Employment Service registered 130,721 jobseekers in 2006 and received 16,933 offers of posts, in which 12,960 workers were placed. Some 70,153 persons made use of the Social and Vocational Guidance Service. Referring to its comments on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Committee hopes that the Government will continue to supply the practical information requested in Part IV of the report form.

2. Cooperation with the social partners. Follow-up to a representation. With reference to the comments which the Committee has been making for many years, the Government indicates that advisory committees at national, regional and local levels within the National Employment Service, as provided for by Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention, have still not been set up. The Government indicates that social dialogue with the employers and workers has been promoted with the aim of joining forces in the building of the new production system. The Committee emphasizes the recommendations made by a tripartite committee in 1993, containing a request for information on the possible amendment of section 604 of the Organic Labour Act to ensure its full conformity with Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention, which do not make any distinction between employers’ and workers’ organizations as regards the operation of the employment service. The Committee requests the Government to ensure that the information in its next report allows an assessment of the manner in which social dialogue helps to give full effect to all the provisions of the Convention and enables the Government to comply with the recommendations of the tripartite committee which were approved by the ILO Governing Body in May 1993.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2008.]