Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 96) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1960)

Part II of the Convention. Progressive abolition of fee-charging employment agencies. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in September 2010 indicating that the National Directorate for Labour Inspection does not have the information asked for in the direct request of 2006. The Government adds that no process has been established for the inspection of fee‑charging employment agencies. The Government also states that it is awaiting the opinion of the Committee on International Affairs in relation to the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181). The Committee recalls that the National Employment Directorate, in its reply to the questionnaire for the General Survey of 2010 on employment instruments, stated that the most feasible thing would be to encourage the legislators to adopt a law empowering the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to regulate, coordinate and control private employment agencies. The Committee recalls that any State that has accepted Part II of the Convention undertakes to abolish fee-charging employment agencies conducted with a view to profit. Costa Rica ratified the Convention in 1960, without fixing a time limit for the abolition of fee-charging employment agencies. The Committee therefore requests the Government to complete its procedures for the ratification of Convention No. 181, which would involve the immediate denunciation of Convention No. 96. The Committee requests the Government to supply information on the proceedings in the Legislative Assembly for ratifying Convention No. 181.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2012.]