Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Spain (Ratification: 1960)

Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the detailed information supplied by the Government in the report received in July 2004 relating to an observation made in 1999. The Government refers to the training offered by the National Employment Institute (INEM) and the efforts that have been made, in collaboration with the social partners and the Autonomous Communities, to update the content of the courses available. The Committee refers to the comments it made on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), and the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), and requests the Government to continue supplying information on the measures adopted by the National Employment System to ensure the best possible organization of the labour market. The Committee requests the Government to include in its next report statistical information on the number of public employment offices, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified and the number of persons placed in employment, indicating the efforts made to satisfy the needs of employers and workers (Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention and Part IV of the report form).