Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Ghana (Ratification: 1961)

1. The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It recalls its 2000 direct request, in which it noted that the advisory committees had ceased to function due to budgetary constraints, and that the Government would appreciate receiving technical assistance from the Office to help it overcome this problem. The Government had also requested technical assistance to help train its staff in modern employment service methods. The Committee understands that the Office has held a tripartite workshop in July 2005 on regulation and monitoring of private recruitment agencies, in particular to combat trafficking in Ghana. The Committee hopes that the Office will be able to provide the assistance requested to ensure the essential function of employment services to achieve the best possible organization of the employment market, including adapting them to meet the new needs of the economy and of the active population (Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention). It asks the Government to report on the measures adopted to establish advisory committees in order to secure the full cooperation of employers’ and workers’ representatives in the organization and operation of the employment service (Articles 4 and 5) and on the measures taken to secure effective cooperation between the public employment service and private employment agencies (Article 11).

2. The Committee further 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).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2006.]