Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Nicaragua (Ratification: 1981)

Contribution of the public employment service to employment promotion. Collaboration with the social partners. In reply to its previous comments, the Committee notes the detailed statistics provided by the Labour Intermediation Department – Public Employment Service (SEPEM) on the placements made per programme, month and sex in 2014, and other relevant data concerning the number of applications for employment received, the number of vacancies notified and the men and women workers placed in employment during the period 2007–14. The Government also indicates that, in the context of the process of promoting, developing relations with and regulating private employment agencies, the First Employment Services Meeting was held in Nicaragua in 2013 with a view to promoting strengthened cooperation for the creation of a common platform of employment services. Furthermore, since 2012, 11 meetings have been held with employers to promote employment services. The Government indicates that between 2007 and 2014 certificates have been issued for 14 private employment agencies and 19 applications for their renewal have been processed. The Committee recalls that Articles 4 and 5 of the Convention provide that arrangements shall be made through advisory committees for the cooperation of the social partners in the organization and operation of the employment service and in the development of the employment service programme. The Committee invites the Government to provide more specific information on the consultations held with the social partners with a view to obtaining their cooperation in the organization and operation of the public employment service. Please continue to provide information on cooperation between the public employment service and private employment agencies and 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).