Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Djibouti (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Articles 1 and 3 of the Convention. Contribution of the employment service to the promotion of employment. In reply to the previous comments, the Government indicates in its report that the National Employment, Training and Vocational Integration Agency (ANEFIP) has set up a website, thus making it easier to consult vacancies. The Committee notes that there is a public employment office under the auspices of the ANEFIP. Between 2011 and 2013, the public employment office received 10,066 applications for employment (from 6,766 men and 3,300 women), notified 631 vacancies and placed 2,091 persons in employment. The Government explains that few vacancies are registered with the employment service and that the work placements are primarily direct recruitments. The Committee notes that the Government, faced with youth unemployment, plans to increase the supply of vocational training and to set up a credit line for young graduates wishing to set up an enterprise. The Government says that the new National Education Act has made vocational training a priority, with the establishment of apprenticeship and vocational centres (CAPs), and that the number of vocational training institutions has increased. Moreover, the Government indicates that a draft decree aimed at promoting the employment of workers with disabilities in enterprises through the establishment of a quota system will be submitted at the next meeting of the National Council for Labour, Employment and Social Security (CONTESS). The Committee invites the Government to continue providing information on the measures taken by the ANEFIP to achieve the best possible organization of the labour market and to adapt its network of services to the needs of the economy and the economically active population. In this regard, the Committee invites the Government to provide information on the progress made in placing persons with disabilities and young persons in employment. Please also provide updated statistical information on the number of public employment offices established, the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified, and the number of persons placed in employment by such offices (Part IV of the report form).

Articles 4 and 5. Participation of the social partners. The Government indicates that several texts have been endorsed by the CONTESS and subsequently enacted and that the national employment policy paper is one of the documents that will be submitted to its next meeting. The Committee notes that the CONTESS and its standing committee can only legitimately issue an opinion with a quorum composed of half of its members and an equal number of representatives of employers and workers. The Committee invites the Government to provide information on the activities of the advisory council concerning the organization and operation of the employment service and on the progress made in developing employment service policy.