Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Comoros (Ratification: 1978)

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Implementation of an active employment policy. The Committee notes the report received in September 2008, in which the Government indicates that no significant developments have been observed since the previous report and that it hopes to provide all the information requested in its next report. The Committee recalls that in its 2008 observation it noted that a framework document on the national employment policy had been adopted following a national workshop organized in November 2007. The Government also indicated that a survey of young graduate jobseekers, undertaken in the island of Grande Comore by the General Directorate of Employment, would be extended to the islands of Mohéli and Anjouan so as to obtain full data on the employment market. The Committee notes that the central objective of the ILO Decent Work Country Programme in the Comoros 2009–12 (PPTD) is employment promotion and that the expected outcomes include, in particular, the formulation of an employment promotion strategy and the adoption of laws and regulations with a view to: implementing the strategy; developing the Act on cooperatives; formulating a strategy for women’s entrepreneurship and youth employment; introducing transparent and confidence-building procedures to spur investment and job creation; and, finally, implementing an information and monitoring system on labour market trends. The Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report whether specific difficulties have been encountered in achieving the objectives established by the framework document on national employment policy and the PPTD and to indicate the extent to which these difficulties have been overcome. The Government is also requested to provide information on the progress made in gathering labour market data and on the manner in which such data are taken into consideration when formulating and implementing employment policy.

Article 3. Participation of the social partners in the formulation and application of policy. The Government referred in its previous report to the importance of the involvement of the social partners, in both the formulation and implementation of employment policies and in the preparation of the PPTD. In this regard, the Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on the steps taken to achieve the priorities of the PPTD, indicating the mechanisms and regularity of the consultations held with the representatives of the persons concerned, in particular with the representatives of employers and workers, on the subjects covered by the Convention. Please also indicate the initiatives that have received ILO support for the promotion of the objectives of the creation of productive employment, as set out in the Convention (Part V of the report form).