Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Belarus (Ratification: 1995)

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Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion and participation of the social partners. The Government indicates that trade unions and employer associations participated in drafting the State employment programme for 2015, endorsed by the Council of Ministers in February 2015. In 2013, the Government and the national employers’ and workers’ organizations entered into a General Agreement in which they undertook to develop and implement, on an annual basis, the employment promotion programmes of the State and the regions. The Government reports that the tripartite National Council for Labour and Social Affairs continues to meet at least once every six months to examine the implementation of the General Agreement. Employment issues were discussed at the 11 meetings held by the National Council from 2011 to 2015 as well as at meetings of the sectoral and territorial councils on labour and social affairs. As of 1 July 2015, there were 300 territorial councils (provincial, municipal and district) and 22 sectoral councils for labour and social questions. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the measures taken or envisaged by the public employment service to ensure the effective recruitment and placement of workers. The Committee also invites the Government to report on the activities of the National Council on Labour and Social Affairs and other local tripartite councils on the subjects covered by the Convention.

Article 7 of the Convention. Measures for particular categories of applicants for employment. The Government indicates that the employment programmes developed each year at the State and regional levels each contain a specific section on measures for finding employment for socially vulnerable categories of people. In 2014, 15,900 unemployed people unable to compete equally in the labour market, including young people and persons with disabilities were placed in permanent jobs. In addition, as a result of decisions taken by local executive and management bodies in 2015, companies were required to reserve jobs for 20,100 people, including 1,800 people with disabilities, 4,400 young people under 21, and 6,100 people recently released from penal establishments. The Committee invites the Government to continue to provide information, including up-to-date statistics, on the impact of measures taken by the public employment service to meet the employment needs of particular categories of applicants for employment, such as young persons, women, the long-term unemployed and persons with disabilities. Please also provide specific information on the measures taken to facilitate specialization by occupation and by industry in the various employment offices.

Article 10. Full use of the employment service. The Government highlights the important role that the social partners play in developing and implementing measures of state policy for promoting employment. Moreover, job creation, primarily in small towns and rural communities, continues to be a priority of the State Employment Programme. This means, in practice, incentivizing employers to create jobs and helping unemployed people to set up their own businesses. The Committee notes that, in 2014, the provincial executive committees made loans from their own budgets to 31 companies in order to create jobs for 243 people, including 17 companies in small towns and seven in rural localities. In addition, financial, organizational and practical support was provided to 2,000 unemployed persons, to set up their own businesses. The Committee further notes the information provided by the Government regarding its automated job vacancy information system, the “all Republic vacancy databank”, which advertises approximately 1,000 vacancies in rural areas, to promote internal migration. In 2014, the databank was consulted over seven and a half times more frequently than in 2010. The Committee also notes measures taken to promote innovation in business, in the form of increased subsidies offered to unemployed persons setting up businesses integrating scientific research and development. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the impact of the measures adopted, in collaboration with the employers’ and workers’ organizations, to encourage full use of the employment service by employers and workers on a voluntary basis, as well as information on the impact of such measures.

Statistics. Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee welcomes the detailed statistics provided by the Government regarding the numbers of unemployed people and job placements, as well as the number of vacancies over the period 2010–15. It invites the Government to continue to provide updated statistical information concerning the number of public employment offices established, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified, and the number of persons placed in employment by such offices.