Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2011, publiée 101ème session CIT (2012)

Convention (n° 88) sur le service de l'emploi, 1948 - Iraq (Ratification: 1951)

Articles 1–3 of the Convention. Contribution of employment services to employment promotion. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in September 2010 in reply to its 2009 direct request. The Government enumerates in its report the projects implemented with the International Organization for Migration, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and the Korean International Cooperation Agency in different governorates (“muhafozat”) of the country to provide training and assist unemployed persons. It further states that the Labour Department registers unemployed persons through the employment centres in Baghdad and other governorates, totalling 24 centres and offices in December 2009. The number of unemployed persons registered from January 2008 to 30 June 2010 totalled almost half a million persons, with men accounting for 75–80 per cent of the total amount. The Committee requests the Government to include in its next report up-to-date information on the ability of the public employment service to ensure the best possible organization of the employment market as an integral part of the national programme for the achievement and maintenance of full employment and the development and use of productive resources. It also invites the Government to provide information on the manner in which the international assistance received has contributed to the strengthening of the free public employment service. As requested by Part IV of the report form, the Committee hopes that the report will also include statistical information on the number of public employment offices established, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified, and the number of female and male workers placed in employment by such offices.

Articles 4 and 5. Participation of the social partners. The Government indicates that the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers agreed to establish a committee constituted of representatives of employers and workers. It also refers to section 16 of the Labour Code, Act No. 71 of 1987, which provides that an advisory committee shall assist the employment service. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the arrangements made for the cooperation of employer and worker representatives in the organization and operation of the employment service and in the development of employment service policy. Please provide information on the constitution of any advisory committee and the procedure adopted for the appointment of employers’ and workers’ representatives, as well as information on how it is ensured that the representatives of employers and workers on these committees are appointed in equal numbers after consultation with representative organizations of employers and workers.

Article 8. Special arrangements for young persons. The Government indicates that the Employment and Training Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs provides jobs for young persons as well as credits to start-up small enterprises through employment centres. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information on the impact of the measures taken to combat the unemployment of young persons and to assist them in finding suitable employment.