Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Colombia (Ratification: 1967)

1. Article 1 of the Convention. In its previous comment, the Committee noted that a labour market planning system had been created by Regulatory Decree No. 099 of 1984. In its last report, the Government indicates that this system was not operative. Under Decree No. 1421, of 1989, the National Service on Apprenticeship (SENA) was entrusted with the function of promoting and carrying out the administration of a free public employment service. The Government indicates that at the present time the administration of the employment service is being transferred to the SENA and that the General Directorate of Employment of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security is going through a phase of technical and organisational adaptation. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate in its next report the extent to which this reorganisation has contributed to "maintain or ensure the maintenance of a free public employment service" (paragraph 1) and to "the best possible organisation of the employment market", as required by Article 1, paragraph 2 of the Convention.

2. Article 3. The Committee notes that the employment service in its current form has 25 local offices in 22 Departments. It would be grateful if the Government would supply in its next report statistical information published in annual or periodical reports concerning the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified, and the number of persons placed in employment by the employment service in its current form (point IV of the report form). In relation to the observation made in 1990 on the application of the Placing of Seamen Convention, 1920 (No. 9), the Committee requests the Government to indicate the extent to which the employment service in its present form covers seafarers.

3. Articles 4 and 5. In comments that it has been making since it examined the Government's first report on the application of the Convention, the Committee has requested information on the measures that have been adopted to give effect to the above provisions of the Convention. In reports on the Convention and in reports on the Unemployment Convention, 1919 (No. 2), the Government mentioned a tripartite committee set up by virtue of an agreement between the SENA and the SENALDE (National Employment Service), and the creation of the National Labour Council and a tripartite employment committee. In view of the recent administrative reorganisation referred to by the Government in its last report on this Convention, the Committee requests it to indicate whether this committee has been set up and the manner in which it is planned to consult it on the subjects set out in these provisions of the Convention.

4. The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would supply information on the measures taken following the technical co-operation agreements concluded with other governments, as noted in the Government's general report for the period between 1 July 1986 and 20 June 1987. [The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1991.]