Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

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:

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee notes that there is still only one employment centre and that it is used by only a small number of workers. The Committee trusts that the Government will be in a position, in the near future, to take the necessary measures, first, to expand the existing centre's activities and, secondly, to extend the employment service to other parts of the country in order to provide a better response to workers' and employers' needs and, more generally, to allow the best possible organization of the labour market. It hopes that the Government will remain in touch with the ILO on this matter in order to obtain technical assistance, if needed.

Articles 4 and 5. The Committee notes that the Government indicates that it has not been able to establish a tripartite advisory committee for employment although it considers that there is a need for one. The Committee recalls that the cooperation machinery envisaged in the provisions of the Convention makes it possible to benefit from and take into account the experience and views of employers' and workers' representatives on the organization, operation and policy of the employment service. It requests the Government to indicate how these consultations are ensured in practice.

Articles 7 and 8. The Committee notes the efforts made to facilitate specialization within the employment service and to implement the vocational guidance measures for young people seeking their first job as well as for the retraining of people dismissed from the civil service. It requests the Government to continue to provide information on this subject.

Article 9. The Committee notes the adoption of the general Act on Public Service of 1993 and the implementing Decree of 28 February 1994 establishing, in particular, the conditions for recruitment of civil servants. It would be grateful if the Government would provide the Office with copies of the abovementioned texts.