Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Malaysia (Ratification: 1974)

The Committee takes note of the information supplied by the Government in its reports received in 1991 and 1992, which contain the Government's comments concerning the observations made in November 1989 by the Malaysian Trades Union Congress on the application of the Convention.

Articles 3, 4 and 10. The Committee notes, in particular, the Government's statements according to which the Manpower Department constantly reviews the existing network of employment offices, and that the programmes and activities of the employment offices are constantly reviewed by the tripartite National Labour Advisory Council. It also notes that the tripartite Labour Market Information Technical Committee set up under the auspices of the National Labour Advisory Council has already started functioning and discussed, among other matters, a working paper entitled "Increasing the Transparency in the Labour Market" which touches upon the need to make more transparent the activities of the employment service so that more employers and workers could use the employment service facilities. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply a copy of this working paper with its next report.

Article 7. The Committee had noted in its previous comments from the above-mentioned communication of the MTUC that there is still no specialisation by occupation and by industries within the employment offices required under this Article and that the needs of special categories of applicants are yet to be adequately met. It also notes a brief indication in the Government's report, according to which special attention is provided for the registration and placement of handicapped people. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would describe in more detail the arrangements made for disabled persons and indicate, in its next report, measures taken or envisaged to give full effect to this Article, giving particulars concerning the occupations, industries and, eventually, other special categories of applicants for which specialised arrangements have been made.