Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1952)

The Committee notes the Government's detailed report and hopes that, in its next report, the Government will be in a position to provide information in respect of the progress made with regard to the following points.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee notes that the organization of various local employment offices has been revised and that a programme to modernize the central office of the National Employment Service has been implemented. Please provide information in respect of the modernization of the network of employment offices and the measures adopted to ensure a sufficient number of employment offices to meet the needs of employers and workers in each of the geographical areas of the country as laid down in this Article.

Articles 4 and 5. The Government states that no meetings of advisory committees have been held as provided for in these provisions of the Convention. The Committee hopes that these advisory committees will be operational in the very near future to ensure that full effect is given to Articles 4 and 5 which provide for the cooperation of 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.

Article 6(c) and (d). In its report, the Government states that a department within the General Department of Employment and Salaries has been established to collect, analyse, assess and study the employment market, among other things. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide examples of the information which has been collected and analysed by this department to ensure that the employment service is able to carry out its functions effectively, in particular, the functions provided for under items (c) and (d) of this provision.

Point IV of the report form. Please 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.