Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

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

Modernization of the employment service. Cooperation with the social partners. In reply to the previous comments, the Government provides information in the report received in October 2005 on the activities of the Secretariat of State for Labour and the establishment of an Integrated Information Services Centre which offers training courses to workers. Around 6,300 workers will be placed in the labour market in 2005. Taking into account the worrying labour market situation that is examined in relation to the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Committee requests the Government to provide more detailed information on the measures taken to ensure the efficient operation of the free public employment service, with the cooperation of the social partners, and comprising a network of employment offices sufficient in number to meet the needs of employers and workers throughout the country (Articles 1 to 7 of the Convention). It requests the Government to include in future reports statistical information on the number of public employment offices established, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified and the number of persons placed in employment by such offices (Part IV of the report form).