Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 1999, publiée 88ème session CIT (2000)

The Committee notes the comments by the General Union of Workers (UGT), transmitted to the Government in March 1999. The UGT affirms that the improvement of the employment situation in Spain has more to do with the short period of economic growth in recent years than with real government policies or appropriate measures, as referred to in Article 2 of the Convention. The number of people engaged in short-term work has scarcely dropped and 33 per cent of the active population is still in that category. The UGT alleges that government measures go against the objectives of the Convention as the Government has carried out an accelerated and indiscriminate process of privatizing the public business sector with obvious reductions in public investment but without any employment-creation measures. The UGT suggests the adoption of measures designed to promote an effective employment policy. The Committee notes that the Government has not communicated its comments on the matters raised by the UGT. The Committee refers to its observation relating to the Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) and would be grateful if the Government would provide a reply in its report due in the year 2000 to the matters raised by the UGT, including the required information on the employment situation which was requested in its 1998 observation in regard to Convention No. 122.