Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2003, publiée 92ème session CIT (2004)

Convention (n° 88) sur le service de l'emploi, 1948 - Argentine (Ratification: 1956)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It is therefore bound to repeat its 2002 observation, which read as follows:

In a communication received in June 2002, the Government refers to the serious economic and financial crisis, which has resulted in a lack of external and internal credit, the paralysis of banking activities and the growth of unemployment as a result of the closure of enterprises and its impact on the labour market. In its observation of 2001, the Committee noted the continued deterioration in the employment situation and reiterated the need to ensure the essential function of employment services to achieve the best possible organization of the employment market, including adopting them to meet the new needs of the economy and the active population (Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention). The Committee requests the Government to provide the statistical information available in published annual or periodical reports 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 (Part IV of the report form).

Articles 4 and 5. In reply to the comments that it has been making for many years, the Government stated that it has not taken measures to establish advisory committees. The Committee once again emphasizes the importance, in a context such as the one referred to above, of the cooperation of the representatives of employers and workers, through advisory committees, in the organization and operation of the employment service and in the development of an employment service policy. The Committee expresses the firm hope that the Government will be in a position to indicate in its next report that advisory committees have been established and are capable of operating so as to give full effect to the abovementioned Articles of the Convention.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2004.]