Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Kazakhstan (Ratification: 2001)

1. Contribution of the public employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report received in February 2006 in reply to its 2004 direct request. It notes that the Ministry of Labour is in charge, amongst other functions, of creating a single data base for the labour market, of monitoring the supply and demand of labour on the basis of this database; of informing the public on the situation of the labour market; of determining, together with the institutions concerned, the needs in vocational training in accordance with the demands of the labour market; and of distributing foreign labour between the regions of Astan and Almaty. The Committee refers to its comments on the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), and requests the Government to continue to report on the manner in which the public employment service carries out its essential tasks, ensuring the best possible organization of the employment market for the achievement and maintenance of full employment and for the development and use of productive resources (Articles 1, 3 and 6 of Convention No. 88). Please also provide statistical information on the number of existing public employment offices, job applications received, job offers notified and persons placed in employment by these offices (Part IV of the report form). It also invites the Government to provide further information in its next report on Convention No. 88 on the following points.

2. Cooperation with the social partners. The Government indicates that, together with the local bodies of the executive branch, and with the participation of the social partners, it adopts public employment programmes on the basis of medium-term plans for the country’s social development. The Committee hopes that in its next report the Government will provide the indications requested by the report form on the arrangements made to appoint the employer and worker representatives in the advisory committees in order to secure the full cooperation of the social partners in the organization and operation of the employment service (Articles 4 and 5).

3. Measures for particular categories of applicants for employment. The Committee notes that the public employment service is responsible for implementing special measures to provide assistance to target groups. In particular, it notes that the local bodies of the executive branch are in charge of establishing quotas for the placement of workers with disabilities amounting to 3 per cent of the overall number of posts, as well as establishing special positions for the placement of persons with disabilities. The Committee would appreciate continuing to receive data on the impact of the activities carried by the public employment service for particular categories of applicants such as women, young workers, workers with disabilities, and older workers (Articles 7 and 8).

4. Cooperation with private employment agencies. The Committee takes note of the role of private employment agencies, as well as the existing measures that ensure cooperation between the public employment service and private employment agencies. It asks the Government to keep providing information on the measures taken in order to secure effective cooperation between these two entities (Article 11).