Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Honduras (Ratification: 1980)

1. The Committee notes the Government's brief report on the application of several Conventions for the period ending June 1994. The Government considers that the various comments made by the Committee have emphasized the need to reform the legislation and states that a draft Labour Code, prepared in the context of the programme to modernize and strengthen the State, has now been submitted to the competent authorities. However, the Committee is bound to urge the Government to supply a detailed report on the employment policy measures adopted under the Convention and to supply the information requested on previous occasions on the following points:

(a) the situation, level and trends of employment, unemployment and under-employment and the impact of the measures adopted to assist particular categories of workers who frequently encounter difficulties in finding long-term employment. More generally, the Committee requests the Government to describe the principal policies adopted to promote productive employment, with an indication of the extent to which the employment objectives included in development plans and programmes have been or are being attained (please refer in this respect to the questions contained in the report form under Article 1 of the Convention, and the question on the promotion of employment for persons with disabilities raised by the Committee in paragraph 5 of its previous observation);

(b) the procedures adopted to ensure that the measures taken to promote economic development or other economic and social objectives contribute to the attainment of employment objectives, in accordance with Article 2;

(c) the manner in which account is taken, in the formulation and application of employment policy, of the experience and views of representatives of employers and workers. Please also indicate whether procedures have been established or are envisaged for the consultation of representatives of other sectors of the active population, such as workers in the rural and informal sectors, with a view to giving full effect to the fundamental provisions of Article 3 of the Convention.

2. In the direct request which it is repeating, the Committee asks the Government to supply additional information on the action taken as a result of the technical cooperation activities of the ILO and on other aspects related to the application of the Convention (the activities of the National Vocational Training Institute, employment in the rural sector and public sector).