Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2009, Publicación: 99ª reunión CIT (2010)

Article 1(a) of the Convention. The focusing of labour administration on labour-related issues. The Committee notes with satisfaction that, following the changes made in the organization of the Government’s structures by Act No. 970/2007 to amend the Government Act, since the beginning of 2008, the overall coordination of immigration and integration issues lie within the competence of the Ministry of the Interior, while the Ministry of Employment and the Economy (replacing the former Ministry of Labour and the former Ministry of Trade and Industry) and its administrative services continue to be responsible for promoting the employment of immigrants and for the implementation of work-related immigration policy.

In this respect, the Committee recalls that functions related to refugees, including refugee quotas, and the integration of immigrants, as well as issues related to emigration and return migration previously entrusted to the former Ministry of Labour, are not primarily labour matters within the meaning of the Convention and cannot therefore be considered as public administration activities in the field of national labour policy, in accordance with Article 1(a) of the Convention.