Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Sao Tome and Principe (Ratification: 1982)

The Committee notes with regret 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 notes the Government's report. It notes that the public employment service in Sao Tome and Principe is free of charge (Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention). It hopes that in its next report the Government will supply further information on a number of points that have already been raised in its previous direct request and, particularly, on the arrangements made in accordance with Articles 4 and 5 to ensure the cooperation of representatives of employers and workers in the organization and operation of the employment service and in the development of employment service policy. Please also continue to supply statistical information and the other published information indicated in point IV of the report form on the work of the CNE respecting the appropriate measures to be taken in accordance with the provisions of Article 6(b), (c) and (e) of the Convention.