Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Suriname (Ratification: 1976)

Other comments on C122

Observation

1999

Direct Request

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1. The Committee notes the brief indications contained in the Government's report in reply to its previous request. It notes that, in connection with the implementation of a structural adjustment plan as from January 1993, a new development plan (MOP) is in the process of being prepared. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the employment objectives laid down in the MOP and to provide all relevant extracts of the MOP with its next report.

2. With reference to its previous request, the Committee hopes that the Government will be able to report that progress is being made in the implementation of the employment measures financed by the Social Investment Fund and to provide the information already requested on the attributions, composition and operation of the National Council for Cooperative Societies and on the measures taken or contemplated to promote cooperatives as a source of productive employment.

3. The Committee observes that the Government has not responded to its request for additional information on the effect given to the provisions of Article 3 of the Convention. It again asks the Government to specify the procedure for appointing representatives of employers' and workers' to the State Council established by Act No. 95 of 1988, and the manner in which representatives of other sectors of the active population are consulted, in particular persons working in the informal sector, in order to ensure their cooperation in the formulation and implementation of employment policy.

4. The Committee notes that implementation of the ILO technical cooperation project on employment planning and the formulation and implementation of employment policies has been delayed. It hopes that the Government will shortly be able to indicate the action taken as a result of this project which is likely to be beneficial to the application of the Convention (Part V of the report form).