Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Greenland

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

1.  The Committee notes the reports submitted by the Government for the periods ending 31 May 1997 and 31 May 1998. The Committee notes the new initiatives implemented by the Government in order to combat unemployment including the establishment of a municipal public employment service, wage subsidies and municipal youth vocational training. The Committee notes in particular that, according to the statistics provided, unemployment has increased since the mid-1990s.

2.  The Committee notes that a new system for compiling labour statistics has been established but that it covers only those workers who were born in Greenland and who work in cities. The Committee recalls the need to collect and analyse statistical and other data concerning the size and distribution of the labour force, the nature and extent of unemployment and underemployment and relevant trends, as a basis for deciding on measures of employment policy (see the report form under Article 2 of the Convention). It hopes that the Government will be able to include in future reports information on the entire workforce of Greenland and supply any other information available on the impact on employment of economic and social policy measures.

3.  The Committee notes the information provided by the Government on employment promotion measures such as the approximate numbers of participants and investment targets set. The Committee trusts that the Government will make every effort to evaluate the effects of employment promotion projects and will be able to include in its next report information on their impact.

4.  Article 3.  The Government states that in practice, the social partners and municipal authorities are consulted in matters concerning them. The Committee welcomes the Government’s proposal to set up a national labour market council and formalize the role of the employers’ and employees’ representatives. It would be grateful if the Government would include in future reports examples of consultations on employment policies and measures held with representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations as well as with representatives of other sectors of the economically active population.