Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2006, publiée 96ème session CIT (2007)

With reference to its observation, the Committee notes the information provided by the Government in reply to the Committee’s previous comments.

Part VII (Special provisions for new applicants for employment), Article 26 of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government’s explanations concerning the social assistance provided by the municipalities under Chapter 5 of the Social Services Act, with special reference to young people who have finished their vocational training. As regards other categories of new applicants for employment mentioned in Article 26 of the Convention, the Committee recalls that certain social benefits are offered also to young persons who have completed their compulsory military service, adults, including disabled persons, who have completed a period of training, as well as persons whose spouse had died, when they are not entitled to a survivor’s benefit. As social benefits under paragraph 1 of Article 26 have to be provided for at least three of the ten specified categories of persons seeking work who are not covered by existing unemployment schemes, the Government is asked to specify, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article, which of the listed categories of persons it undertakes to protect and what concrete social benefits and services are placed at their disposal for this purpose. In addition, the Committee would also like the Government to indicate further categories of persons to which it plans to extend progressively such benefits and services in line with paragraph 3 of Article 26.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2007.]