Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

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

Articles 1, 3, 10 and 14 of the Convention. Regulation of private employment agencies. The Committee notes with satisfaction that Decree number 137/016 on Private Employment Agencies, regulating Act No. 17.692, was approved on 9 May 2016, and that the definition of private employment agencies as well as the regulation of their functioning is largely based on the provisions of the Convention. It also notes the Government’s reply to its previous observation, indicating that a registry of private employment agencies, comprised of a team that can receive, control and register, or renew the registry of, the documentation required under the Decree, has been established within the National Employment Directorate (DINAE).

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.