Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Cuba (Ratification: 1971)

Article 1 of the Convention. Implementation of an employment policy within the framework of a coordinated economic and social policy. The Committee notes the information sent by the Government in the report for June 2009–May 2011 concerning unemployment as it stood at the end of 2010. The Committee requests the Government to describe the manner in which the updating of the economic model, announced in the last quarter of 2010, affects the application of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to send all available information on how the reassignment of public sector workers has enabled the persons concerned to engage in productive employment. The Committee again requests the Government to include up-to-date information on the situation, level and trends of the labour market, indicating how they affect particular categories of workers, such as women, young persons and workers affected by the reorganization of the state sector.

Small and medium-sized enterprises. Cooperatives. In its previous comments the Committee referred to the fact that self-employed work supplemented certain state activities in manufacturing and the provision of services of use to the population. In its last report the Government indicates that, at the end of 2009, there were 231,600 workers employed in cooperatives and 143,800 self-employed workers, 30,300 of whom were women. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on the impact of the authorization to work on a self-employed basis and on the growth in non state production in terms of increasing productivity. The Committee also reiterates its interest in assessing the contribution of agricultural cooperatives towards increasing agricultural production.

Employment promotion and vulnerable groups. The Government provides some information in its report on employment for young persons, women and people with disabilities. The Committee requests the Government to include information in its next report on the steps taken to coordinate education and training policies with employment.

Article 3. Participation of the social partners. The Government lists the organizations which participate, according to the matters concerned, in a democratic dialogue relating to the various measures to be adopted. The Committee requests the Government to include information in its next report on how the representatives of all the interested parties have given their views on the process of updating the economic model with regard to achieving the objectives of full, productive and freely chosen employment.