Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

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

Modernization of the employment service. Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes with interest the detailed information provided by the Government in the reports received in May 2012 and September 2013, in reply to the observation made in 2011. The Government indicates that the public employment service – the National System of Employment Mediation, Guidance and Information (SIOIE) – consists of a network of job placement services comprising 41 municipalities (which have signed an inter-institutional technical cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security), 117 technical colleges, 43 evening class branches of the Ministry of Public Education and nine regional branches of the National Training Institute. The Committee also notes that the SIOIE has an online platform (www.buscoempleocr.com) providing an automated linkage to employment service tailored to the needs of the individual jobseeker. The Government indicates that between August 2009 and June 2013 the online platform registered 99,590 job applications, 18,365 vacancies, 4,932 job placements and 318,490 job referrals. The Committee further notes the statistical information provided with regard to the total registered on the platform as at 15 June 2013: jobseekers in relation to the follow-up body concerned; jobseekers between 15 and 35 years of age; enterprises by province; and jobs in relation to the follow-up body concerned. The Committee invites the Government to continue to provide information on the measures taken to ensure the efficient functioning of a free public employment service comprising a network of employment offices to meet the needs of enterprises and workers throughout the country (Articles 1–3 of the Convention). The Committee also invites the Government to continue to provide information on the number of public employment offices established, the number of applications for employment received by the SIOIE, the number of vacancies notified and the number of persons placed in employment by the SIOIE (Part IV of the report form).