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

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

1. The Committee notes the brief information provided in the Government’s report received in September 2009. The Government indicates that, in 2008, the employment centres operating throughout the country under the National Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (INEFP) ensured the placement of 11,059 registered jobseekers (1,617 of them being women) in various companies active in several economic sectors. The Committee notes that the Employment and Vocational Training Strategy (EEFP) 2006–15, adopted by the Government, aims, inter alia, to enhance the efficiency of public employment services and private agencies to improve labour market management. The Committee asks the Government to provide, in its next report, more details on the activities that have been undertaken by the employment services to promote full employment (Articles 1–3 of the Convention). Please also provide statistical and other information on the activities of the employment services.

2. Articles 4 and 5. Cooperation with the social partners. With reference to previous comments, the Committee asks the Government to provide detailed information on the measures taken to establish the tripartite administrative council of the INEFP, and on whether suitable arrangements have been made through this body for 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.

3. Articles 7 and 8. Vulnerable workers. The Committee notes that the EEFP 2006–15 includes among its strategic objectives the provision of support for bringing into work the special target groups (including women and persons with disabilities). In this connection, it invites the Government to indicate if any measures have been taken in the employment service to adequately meet the needs of juveniles, people with disabilities and other categories of vulnerable workers.

4. Article 11. Cooperation with private employment agencies. The Government indicates, in its reply to the questionnaire for the 2010 General Survey on employment, that the regulations currently governing private employment agencies reflect the principles set forth in the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), but that they need to be reviewed. The Committee notes that the Government requests the technical assistance of the ILO in the drafting of new regulations. The Committee asks the Government to continue providing information on the measures adopted to secure effective cooperation between the public employment service and private employment agencies, as well as on whether steps have been taken to initiate the ratification process for Convention No. 181, and, if so, to provide information on these steps.