Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Central African Republic (Ratification: 1964)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in June 2013 in response to its 2011 direct request. It notes that the events which had shaken the country in March 2013 have not spared the Central African Agency for Vocational Training (CAAVT), whose offices had been vandalized. The Government also indicates that operationalization of the National Permanent Labour Council will allow reinforced collaboration between employers and workers. The Government indicates that, during 2009, 6,620 employment seekers matriculated at CAAVT, 732 were placed and 62 benefited from professional insertion contract of an enterprise. The Government also notes that 1,656 jobseekers were trained in techniques for finding employment, 1,400 young unemployed were occupied and remunerated in the framework of a high-intensity work programme for manpower, and 23 apprentices were placed in welcoming structures. The Committee invites the Government to indicate the measures taken to ensure effective operation of the network of CAAVT agencies (Article 3 of the Convention). It also requests that the Government describe the results noted or expected from CAAVT activities in the framework of the implementation of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS). Moreover, the Committee invites the Government to provide details on the measures taken by the National Permanent Labour Council in order to ensure the collaboration of employers’ and workers’ representatives in the organization of the public employment service (Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention). In addition, the Committee invites the Government to continue to provide practical information concerning the number of public employment offices created, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies announced and the number of persons placed in employment by such offices (Part IV of the report form).

Functions of the public employment service. The Government indicates that specialization by profession and industry is not yet operational; however, since 2009, the CAAVT is recruiting in the framework of a professional enterprise insertion contract (PEIC) young persons coming from various educational backgrounds. The Committee invites the Government to provide detailed information on the activities that the CAAVT performs in order to carry out effectively the functions described in Article 6 of the Convention, by specifying CAAVT activities concerning the various professions and industries as well as vulnerable categories for workers, such as workers with disabilities (Article 7). Please also indicate the impact of the measures taken or envisaged by the CAAVT to ensure access to an appropriate job for young persons (Article 8).

Measures to ensure cooperation with private employment agencies. The Government refers to placement liberalization which has been done in the framework of the new Labour Code. The Committee notes that private placement offices are not yet authorized to operate due to the fact that the application text is still in the drafting stage. The Committee invites the Government to provide, in due course, information on the measures adopted or envisaged by the employment service to ensure cooperation between the public employment service and private employment agencies (Article 11).