Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Japan (Ratification: 1953)

Organization and functions of the employment service. The Committee notes the Government’s detailed report on the application of the Convention for the period 1998-2005. The Japanese Trade Union Confederation (JTUC-RENGO) observed in its report that, since 2005, there has been a partial privatization of sectors linked to the Public Employment Security Offices. JTUC-RENGO expresses its concern that this may lead to the opening of the Public Employment Security Offices to the private sector in the future. The Committee refers to its comments on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) and of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), and requests the Government to describe more precisely the manner in which, in the context of the new organization referred to by JTUC-RENGO, a national system of employment offices under the direction of a national authority (Article 2 of the Convention), carries out the functions contemplated in Article 6 of the Convention.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2007.]