Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Hungary (Ratification: 1994)

Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the Government’s detailed report received in January 2011 for the period ending May 2010 and the comments provided by the workers’ organizations at the National ILO Council in August 2010. The Government reports that 604,576 jobseekers were registered at the employment offices at the end of 2009. In the same year, the public employment service successfully mediated 182,329 persons to 317,244 vacancies reported. The Committee notes the workers’ organizations dissatisfaction as they consider that the report does not demonstrate what actual measures were taken in order to improve the employment rate. Furthermore, the workers’ organizations indicate that they do not consider government subsidies to have been utilized efficiently. The Government indicates that the activities of the employment service and the utilization of the subsidies facilitating employment are processed and demonstrated in a detailed annual report discussed by the Controlling Body of the Labour Market Fund, a tripartite body. The Committee also notes that the workers’ organizations asked the Government for additional information concerning the measures taken for the facilitation of labour mobility. The Government replied by indicating that the employment service makes labour force forecasts yearly which reflect the expected developments in the professional requirements of employment. Training and retraining programmes supported by the labour organization are defined on the basis of the number of current vacant jobs and expected demand, facilitating the professional mobility of jobseekers. To facilitate the geographical mobility of employees, the Government indicates that it has established and operates a national jobseeking system, which is available at each agency, and this information is also available online. The EURES Consulting Network was established within the framework of the employment service, the consultants and assistants of which give assistance in finding jobs in the European Economic Area regions, both at the regional and local level. Frontier cooperation programmes (EURES-T) facilitate the cooperation of the labour market actors of neighbouring countries and the employment of the labour force over the borders in accordance with business requirements. The Committee refers to its 2010 comments on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), and invites the Government to describe in its next report on Convention No. 88 the contribution of the employment service to address regional disparities and facilitate the integration of jobseekers in the labour market. The Committee also invites the Government to continue to provide information on the active cooperation of employers’ and workers’ representatives in the organization and operation of the employment service, as well as on the activities of the Labour Market Fund (Articles 4 and 5 of Convention No. 88).