Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2006, Publicación: 96ª reunión CIT (2007)

Convenio sobre las agencias de empleo privadas, 1997 (núm. 181) - Albania (Ratificación : 1999)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It understands that Decision No. 71 of 11 February 1999 has been repealed and replaced by resolution No. 708 of 16 October 2003. It requests the Government to provide a report for examination by the Committee at its next session containing copies of the laws and regulations which give effect to the Convention, as well as detailed replies to the matters raised in its 2002 direct request concerning the following points:

Article 7 of the Convention. Please indicate any laws or regulations ensuring that private employment agencies do not charge directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, any fees or costs to workers.

Article 8, paragraph 1. Please indicate the measures taken or envisaged to provide adequate protection for, and prevent abuses of, migrant workers recruited or placed in the national territory.

Article 8, paragraph 2. Please indicate whether the bilateral agreements contain terms which prevent abuses and fraudulent practices in the recruitment, placement and employment of migrant workers and the content of the terms.

Article 10. Please describe the machinery and procedures for the investigation of complaints, alleged abuses and fraudulent practices concerning the activities of private employment agencies.

Article 11. Please describe the measures taken or envisaged, in accordance with national legislation and practice, to ensure adequate protection for workers employed by private employment agencies in respect of access to training (paragraph (f)).

Article 12. Please indicate, for each of the items of this Article, the respective responsibilities of private employment agencies and user enterprises.

Article 13, paragraphs 1 and 2. Please describe the procedures for cooperation between the public employment service and private employment agencies and to indicate in particular the nature of the information exchanged.

Article 13, paragraph 4. Please specify the information which is made publicly available and the intervals at which this is done.

Part V of the report form. Please provide all information relevant to the practical application of the Convention, including, for example, extracts of inspection reports and, where such statistics exist, information on the number of workers covered by the measures giving effect to the Convention, the number and nature of infringements reported, etc.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2007.]