Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Unemployment Convention, 1919 (No. 2) - Guyana (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Measures to combat unemployment. The Committee refers to its previous comments and notes the information provided by the Government in May 2006 concerning the activities of the Training and Placement Committee in collaboration with the Central Recruitment and Placement Agency now under way, such as a skills survey. It asks the Government to provide in its next report further information on the measures taken to combat unemployment in Guyana, including data on the development of free public employment services (Article 1 of the Convention). Please also describe the steps taken to coordinate the operation of public and private employment services (Article 2(2)).