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

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Comoros (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee takes note of the information provided by the Government in reply to its previous direct request. It would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information in its next report on the following points:

1. The Committee has been informed that a five-year development plan is being prepared and will come into force in 1993. Please provide information on the objectives and the measures to promote employment envisaged in the context of the planning process. The Committee notes that the Government is particularly concerned about the employment of young people who have no qualifications and who are particularly affected by unemployment. Please provide information on the training for employment project for young school drop-outs, referred to in the report.

2. The Government indicates that it is pursuing its activities to develop rural employment. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide particulars of the nature and results of the activities undertaken to promote rural employment by the Centre for Support to Rural Development (CADER) and the Comoros Federal Development Support Centre (CEFADER).

3. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, the absence of employers' and workers' organisations has been an obstacle to the full application of the Convention in the past, but that this difficulty should be overcome now that workers' organisations are emerging. With reference to its previous direct requests, the Committee recalls that the "representatives of the persons affected" referred to in Article 3 of the Convention may be not only representatives of employers' and workers' organisations but also representatives of other sectors of the economically active population such as those working in the rural sector and the informal sector. The Committee trusts that the Government will take appropriate measures to give full effect to this important provision of the Convention and will indicate in its next report the manner in which representatives of the persons affected are consulted concerning employment policies.

4. The Committee has been informed that, in the context of a mission to assist economic planning and management carried out in April 1991 by the ILO, it was suggested that the Government should organise a programme to attenuate the social costs of adjustment, in particular by creating productive and gainful employment, with a labour-intensive activity component and by developing micro-activities in the context of the occupational retraining and reintegration of workers made redundant and the long-term unemployed. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the action that has been taken or is envisaged as a result of the assistance and advice provided by the ILO departments dealing with employment policy and, if applicable, the factors which may have hindered or delayed such action (Part V of the report form).