Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1994, Publicación: 81ª reunión CIT (1994)

With reference to its observation, the Committee asks the Government to provide information in its next report on the following points:

1. Please continue to provide information on the activities of the public placement agency system and on private placement agencies, indicating whether any measures have been taken or are planned to make the recruitment and placement of jobseekers more efficient, in particular through the public, non-fee-charging employment service.

2. Please indicate the results obtained by the programme for retraining coalworkers, and the other measures adopted to assist workers affected by industrial restructuring in finding lasting employment.

3. Please continue to provide information on the implementation of the youth training programme and indicate to what extent the objectives for the period 1991-94 have been or are in the process of being attained. In particular, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide the results of the evaluations of the actual impact of training programmes.

4. Article 3 of the Convention. In its report the Government refers to a proposed amendment of the Training and Employment Scheme Regulations to set up a system of formal consultation procedures in this area. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate how such consultations are ensured and to refer, if appropriate, to the relevant provisions of the ILO instruments on human resources development (Convention No. 142 and Recommendation No. 150).

The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide detailed information on consultations held with employers' and workers' organizations, with particular reference to consultations "on employment policies", giving particulars of any consultations held with representatives of other sectors of the active population such as the rural and urban informal sectors.

5. Please continue to provide information on the activities carried out in the area of employment policy by the National Service for Women, the National Office for Returnees and the National Organization for Indigenous Development.

6. Lastly, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to supply information on action taken as a result of PREALC technical cooperation projects, including both specific employment projects and research conducted by the Ministry of Planning and Cooperation to evaluate the impact of macroeconomic policy on income distribution and to quantify the effect of Government action in relation to the chief objective of growth with equity.