Observación (CEACR) - Adopción: 2004, Publicación: 93ª reunión CIT (2005)

Convenio sobre el servicio del empleo, 1948 (núm. 88) - Argentina (Ratificación : 1956)

1. Contribution of the employment service to the promotion of employment. The Committee notes the detailed information for the period 2001-04 drawn up by the Employment Services Development Unit at the Labour Ministry presenting job placement statistics from the public employment offices in the federal capital and in each province of the country (41,898 applications for employment reported to have been processed during the said period). The Government emphasizes that, as at March 2004, employment had increased for 12 successive months for the first time in the last ten years. In the first quarter of 2004 the rate of unemployment was 14.4 per cent. This percentage represented a 6 per cent reduction compared to the same period of the previous year, when unemployment affected 20.4 per cent of the economically active population. The Committee requests the Government to continue reporting on the measures adopted by the public employment services to achieve the best possible organization of the employment market, including adapting them to meet the new needs of the economy and the active population (Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide statistical information concerning 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 - indicating the efforts made to meet the needs of employers and workers in each region of the country (Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention and Part IV of the report form).

2. Cooperation of the social partners. The Government refers to certain conventions and agreements concluded under the General Employment Promotion Plan between employers’ and workers’ organizations. The occupational histories and vocational profiles of the beneficiaries of the Heads of Household Programme are established through the intervention of the municipalities and the trade union organizations. As part of the pilot phase of the Integrated Employment and Training Service, cooperation agreements have been concluded between certain employment offices and public and private local bodies. The Committee refers once again to the provisions of Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention and trusts that the Government will be in a position to provide information in its next report on the other measures adopted to establish advisory committees at national, provincial and local levels in order to secure the full cooperation of employers’ and workers’ representatives in the organization and operation of the employment service.