Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1990, publiée 77ème session CIT (1990)

Convention (n° 122) sur la politique de l'emploi, 1964 - Portugal (Ratification: 1981)

The Committee refers to its observation, and asks the Government to provide information on the following questions in its next report:

1. In its report, the Government indicates that only the Confederation of Portuguese Industries (CIP) commented on the application of the Convention. The Committee notes that the Government plans to reply to the observations of the CIP. It asks the Government to communicate the observations of the CIP and to enclose any remarks it may consider useful (Part VII of the report form).

2. Please specify the scope and effects of the measures envisaged to promote the geographical mobility of workers in the light of other measures which could be taken to promote employment in the economically depressed regions of the country, such as encouraging the mobility of investment.

3.1 Article 2 of the Convention. With regard to the employment and unemployment statistics, the Committee referred in its previous comments to the recommendations of the report submitted to the Government by the multidisciplinary mission of the ILO Programme for the Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment (PIACT), of 20 November 1984. It would be grateful if the Government would indicate the measures taken or under consideration to establish a single set of statistics based on a single definition of unemployment and founded on an in-depth survey of the labour market conducted jointly by the National Institute of Statistics (INS), the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Labour (SSMT) and the Employment and Vocational Training Institute (IEFP).

3.2 Please also describe the measures taken to co-ordinate the action undertaken by the IEFP and the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Employment (CIME) to promote employment.

4. Lastly, the Committee notes with from Portugal's report to the Fourth Conference of European Ministers of Labour (Copenhagen, October 1989), that a reform of the labour legislation was approved in February-March 1989, which aims to bestow greater flexibility on the labour market and simplify procedures. It hopes that the Government's next report will contain appropriate information on the scope of the above reform in the light of the implementation of the employment policy.