Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181) - Uruguay (Ratification: 2004)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report and of the information that draft regulations to implement the Convention have been prepared in consultation with the Tripartite International Standards Group. The Government states that placement agencies, occupational service agencies and employment market integration enterprises are in operation. The National Employment Directorate has registered 1,000 private employment agencies. According to information sent in the report in 2004, the demand for temporary work amounted to 3,105 jobs and 2,469 persons were placed. The Committee notes that the Government is in the process of studying and considering the draft decree issuing regulations to apply the Convention. It requests the Government to send the text of the decree once it has been adopted together with information enabling the Committee to examine how each provision of the Convention is applied, and data on the nature of any infringements reported in connection with the activities of private employment agencies.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2007.]