Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Panama (Ratification: 1970)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee takes note of the detailed information provided by the Government following the observation made in 1989. The recent information reveals in particular that the employment situation has deteriorated seriously, the rate having risen from 11.8 per cent to 16 per cent between 1987 and 1988 overall and from 14 per cent to about 21 per cent in the metropolitan area. The Committee has also received a later report stressing the difficulties and disruption recently encountered. As the Committee is due to re-examine the position in detail on receipt of a report due in 1990, it proposes to deter consideration of the issues until its next meeting when a report of developments up to 30 June 1990 will have been received and can be studied. In particular, it hopes to receive information as to the impact of the implementation of various employment programmes and policies, e.g. the "labour bank" project and as to the action taken as a result of the ILO/UNDP technical assistance.