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

Employment Service Convention, 1948 (No. 88) - Greece (Ratification: 1955)

Contribution of the employment service to employment promotion. The Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending in October 2005, which includes detailed information in reply to its 1999 direct request. In its comments on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122), the Committee had also noted the programmes implemented by the Employment and Labour Organization (OAED) and the involvement of the social partners in the operation of the public employment service. In its report on Convention No. 88, the Government indicates that new legislative measures were adopted to regulate private employment agencies. The Committee requests the Government to continue to supply, in its next reports, information on the action taken by the OAED to ensure a free public employment service and to achieve the best possible organization of the employment market as requested by the Convention. With regard to the cooperation of the public employment service and private employment agencies, the Government might consider it useful to refer to the instruments adopted in 1997 by the International Labour Conference on the matter (Convention No. 181 and Recommendation No. 188).