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Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors' Benefits Convention, 1967 (No. 128) - Uruguay (RATIFICATION: 1973)

In reply to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government refers to its report of August 2009, which provides information on Law 18.395 of 24 October 2008 concerning flexible retirement. The Committee however has not found in the text of the report any reply to the questions it has raised in its previous observation and direct request of 2008. In view of the fact that the Government’s next report on the Convention due in 2011 will be a detailed report providing information on the application of each Article of the Convention in accordance with the report form adopted by the Governing Body, the Committee trusts that the Government will make an effort to assess the impact of the abovementioned law, as well as other new legislation, on compliance with the relevant provisions of the Convention and that it will reply in detail to the Committee’s previous observation which read as follows:

Article 29 of the Convention. Review of periodical benefits currently payable. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information concerning increases of pension benefits in relation to the general level of earnings and the cost of living index corresponding to the 2001–05 period. It notes in particular that during that period the cost of living index was 61.71 per cent, while the index of earnings and the revised amount of cash benefits were 35.69 per cent and 26.89 per cent, respectively. The Committee therefore hopes that the Government will adopt the necessary measures to revise the amount of cash benefits, at least up to the level of the index of earnings. It requests the Government to supply in its next report the statistical information required under Article 29 in the report form. The Committee further requests the Government to provide information on the observations made by the Inter-Union Assembly of Workers–National Convention of Workers (PIT–CNT).