Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Part II of the Convention. Progressive abolition of fee-charging employment agencies conducted with a view to profit. In reply to the 2004 direct request, the Government indicates in a report received in September 2009 that, in response to a crucial problem of unemployment, it has established the National Youth Employment Promotion Agency (ANAPEJ) and once again authorized labour inspectorates to open employment offices. The Government adds that section 387 of the Labour Code is not concerned by the revision of the texts issued under the Code and that there are no fee-charging employment agencies in Mauritania, as the aim is to facilitate the equality of opportunity of all Mauritanian nationals in relation to employment. The Committee invites the Government to provide information in its next report on the activities of the employment offices which have been opened by labour inspectorates. In its General Survey of 2010 on employment instruments, the Committee observed that, in the context of the global economic crisis, efficient employment services play a key role in maintaining full employment and securing the needs of the workers and enterprises affected (General Survey, op. cit., paragraph 202). Since the adoption in 1997 of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), the Committee has been inviting member States which have ratified Convention No. 96, which is revised by Convention No. 181, to envisage ratifying the more recent instrument. In that respect, it once again invites the Government to provide information on any developments which may occur in relation to the activities of private employment agencies and the prospects of ratifying Convention No. 181.