Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Cuba (Ratification: 1971)

1. The Committee notes the Government's report. The Government has stated that it continues to make considerable progress in the education and health sectors, in addition to obtaining qualitative improvements in the national economy. The Committee notes Act No. 63, the Single Plan for Socio-Economic Development of the State for the year 1988, which was communicated with the report, and which refers to the present "correction process" taking place in the economic activity of the country. The circumstances under which the Plan will be implemented and the material requirements for this make it necessary to make the maximum effort to achieve the planned levels of efficiency in undertakings and, at the same time, impose responsibility for its achievement on each level of management (preambular paragraph 9 of Act No. 63). The indicative guideline for the increase in labour productivity has been fixed at between 1 and 1.5 per cent. In this connection, the Convention provides that an active employment policy should promote not only the availability of freely-chosen employment for all available persons, but also that "such work is as productive as possible" (Article 1, paragraph 2(b), of the Convention). The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to provide detailed information in its next report on the progress achieved in the present correction process during the Single Plan for 1988, or on the measures provided for in revising the Five-Year Plan for 1986-1990 in relation to the measures which have been taken to ensure that work is as productive as possible (see the fourth question in the report form under Article 1).

2. Please describe the measures adopted concerning policies for prices, incomes and wages, and their relationship with employment and employment policy measures (Article 1).

3. In its 1987 observation, the Committee noted the detailed statistical information contained in the 1981 Population and Housing Census which the Government had transmitted. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would again include statistical and other data in its next report, as requested in the second question under Article 1 and Part VI of the report form.

4. Further to the Committee's previous comments, the Government has stated that for determined periods difficulties of a temporary nature have been encountered with young persons who have completed technical education or have been demobilised from military service. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing detailed information on the measures provided for in revising the Five-Year Plan 1986-1990, or which have been adopted within the framework of the plans now in force, to co-ordinate educational and vocational training policies with the creation of employment opportunities. Please indicate also the measures which have been taken or are contemplated to meet the needs of young persons who wish to enter the labour market.