Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Tajikistan (Ratification: 1993)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government has not provided any information on the application of the Convention since July 2010. 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 comments.

Repetition

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Implementation of an active employment policy. The Government previously indicated that the 2010–11 employment promotion programme aimed to create 238,425 jobs in areas such as the construction of hydroelectric power stations, road work and hospital building works. The programme also aimed to reduce the impact of the financial and economic crisis on the labour market. The Government indicated that a new job creation programme had been adopted for the period 2008–15. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the results achieved in the context of the employment promotion and job creation programmes, disaggregated by category, particularly concerning vulnerable categories of jobseekers, such as young persons and women. It also requests the Government to indicate the manner in which labour market data is collected and used to determine and review employment policy measures.

Measures to overcome the economic crisis. The Government indicated in its 2009 report that the economic and political capacities of Tajikistan had been severely affected by the financial crisis and that the country was facing a decline in its industrial production, a rise in unemployment, an increase in wages and pension debt, a drop in foreign trade and a budget deficit. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the repercussions of the economic crisis on employment and the measures taken to revive an active policy promoting full, productive and freely chosen employment.

Collection and use of employment data. The Government previously indicated that a job vacancy database would be created once the employment services website was operational. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the progress made in creating a database which meets the needs of jobseekers.

Coordination of employment policy with the poverty reduction strategy. The Committee requests the Government to include information on the progress made in terms of the creation of long-term employment and poverty reduction, particularly in rural areas. Please also provide information on the measures taken or envisaged to reduce the regional disparities in economic growth and employment.

Coordination of education and training policy with employment policy. The Government previously indicated that the difficulties encountered in achieving the objective of full, productive and freely chosen employment were essentially due to gaps in levels of vocational training, given that the majority of jobseekers officially registered with the employment services did not have the qualifications required. The Government also indicated that the Scientific Research Institute of Labour and Social Insurance had made a number of recommendations to improve the system of vocational training and guidance and to link vocational education to the requirements of the labour market. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the progress made with regard to the provision of training for jobseekers. Please also include information on the impact of the measures taken to improve the level of qualifications and to coordinate education and training policies with employment prospects.

Article 3. Participation of the social partners in policy formulation and implementation. The Committee requests the Government to provide updated information on the manner in which the representatives of the social partners are consulted in relation to the formulation of employment policies. It also requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to hold consultations with the most vulnerable categories of the population, in particular with the representatives of workers in rural areas and in the informal economy, with a view to taking fully into account their experience and views when developing employment policy programmes and measures.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the near future.