Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Madagascar (Ratification: 1998)

1. Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the Government’s report received in October 2004 and, in particular, the statistics for the year 2003. It requests the Government to continue to supply information on the action taken by the provincial and prefectural employment services to ensure a free public employment service and to achieve the best possible organization of the employment market, as required by the Convention (Article 1 and Article 3, paragraphs 2 and 10, of the Convention).

2. Cooperation of the social partners. In reply to its previous comments, the Government indicates that the National Employment Council was involved in the conception of the document entitled National vision of employment, a document that served as a basis for the preparation of the Ouagadougou Employment Summit of September 2004. The National Employment Council also took part in the elaboration of a framework document on national employment policy, as well as two texts respecting the creation and operation of the Malagasy Employment and Vocational Training Observatory. The Committee requests the Government to continue to supply information in its next report on all the arrangements made within the National Employment Council to ensure cooperation with representatives of the social partners concerning the organization and operation of the employment service (Articles 4 and 5).

3. Functions of the employment service. In reply to its previous comments on the repeal of Order No. 4747/97, the Government indicates that the operation of the employment service is now governed by Decree No. 2004-198, of 17 February 2004, establishing the functions of the Minister of the Public Service, Labour and Social Law. Please supply information on the manner in which the employment service effectively ensures the discharge of each of the functions listed in Article 6 of the Convention.

4. Special measures for young persons. In reply to its previous comments, the Government indicates that the employment service envisages placing young first-time jobseekers, aged between 16 and 25, in apprenticeship in private enterprises or apprenticeship centres. Furthermore, it envisages that a contract or agreement will be established between the employment service and the employer with a view to the effective application of these measures. In this regard, the Committee requests the Government to supply, in its next report, statistics on the results obtained through the application of these special measures (Article 8).

5. Staff of the employment service. The Committee takes note of the latest information supplied by the Government on this question and requests it to keep it informed of the effect given to the draft Decree on this subject (Article 9, paragraphs 1 and 2).

6. Collaboration with private employment agencies. In response to its previous comments on collaboration between private employment agencies not conducted with a view to profit and the public employment services, the Government indicates that this collaboration, as well as the implementation of an inspection system and the operation of the various employment agencies, will be regulated by texts issued under the new Labour Code, which was recently approved by the Parliament and is to be promulgated in the near future. The Committee requests the Government to supply copies of the above implementing texts once they have been adopted (Article 11 and Part III of the report form).