Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1975)

Articles 1–3 of the Convention. Contribution of the employment service to the promotion of employment. The Committee notes the report received for the period ending September 2010. The Government indicates that the first Employment Membership Network (Red Socio Empleo) centre opened in Quito. The Employment Membership Network was implemented as one of the operational components for improving the public employment service. The Committee also notes that the public employment service has been strengthened though computing equipment and staff recruitment and training in nine
on-the-spot job placement centres in various cities. The KMELLOTEL system has been implemented as a free telephone information service relating to employment offers and requests, and an electronic employment exchange is provided through the Internet. In addition, the Government is contributing to formalizing the status of workers by providing incentives through social security and taxation, and the Directorate of Employment plans to establish a centre to make the job-placement services of the public employment service available to workers in the informal sector. The Committee refers to its comments on the application of Convention No. 122 and requests the Government to include information in its next report on Convention No. 88 which enables an appreciation of the manner in which the efficient functioning of the free public employment service is ensured, with a network of employment offices sufficient in number to meet the needs of employers and workers throughout the country. The Committee requests the Government to provide 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).

Articles 4 and 5. Cooperation with the social partners. The Government indicates in its report that all the activities undertaken to implement the policies and guidelines of the Convention are carried out through the advisory committees which operate throughout the Employment Membership Network and in the territorial districts. The Committee requests the Government to include examples in its next report of the agreements reached by the advisory committees operating within the Employment Membership Network or in the context of the National Labour Council to enable an evaluation of the effect given to Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention, which provide for the cooperation of employer and worker representatives, through advisory committees, in the organization and operation of the employment service and in the development of employment service policy.