Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2005, Publicación: 95ª reunión CIT (2006)

1. Cooperation of workers’ and employers’ representatives. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to take appropriate steps to bring the national regulations into conformity with the Articles of the Convention that aim to secure the cooperation of employers’ and workers’ representatives in the organization and functioning of the employment service and the development of employment service policy. In response to those comments, the Government states that in 1990, the National Employment Agency (ANEM) replaced the National Manpower Office. The National Employment and Poverty Reduction Observatory, created in 2005, comprises representatives of the administration, employers, unions, research and study institutes, and representatives of community-based associations. The Committee notes this information with interest and, referring to its observation on the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), requests the Government to continue to report on measures taken by ANEM and the National Employment and Poverty Reduction Observatory to ensure, in cooperation with the social partners, that the public employment service is run efficiently and free of charge, and that it comprises a network of offices sufficient in number to meet the specific needs of jobseekers and employers countrywide (Articles 1 to 7 of the Convention). Please also provide statistical information on the number of existing public employment offices, job applications received, job offers notified and persons placed in employment by these offices.

2. Cooperation in the administration of unemployment insurance. The Committee notes that ANEM cooperates with the National Unemployment Insurance Fund (CNDA) in the issuance of unemployment attestations and the grant of unemployment allowance for workers who have been made redundant (Article 6(d)). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to send information on the cooperation between ANEM and the CNDA to provide relief for the unemployed.