Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee refers to its observation and once again requests the Government to supply with its next report information of the type requested under Part VI of the report form. It also requests it to supply detailed information on the following aspects of the application of the Convention:

1. The Committee notes the information on the impact on industrial production and manufacturing of the system of the free import of goods and services established by Supreme Decree No. 21060 of August 1985. Please specify, in so far as possible, its impact on the creation of productive employment.

2. The Committee notes the information supplied on the number of workers in public sector enterprises who have been reclassified and reintegrated into the labour market. Please continue supplying information on the staff rationalisation programmes in the Bolivian Grain Corporation and the National Motor Transport Board.

3. Please continue supplying information on the generation of productive employment through the activities of the Emergency Social Fund and the subprogramme for the improvement and construction of social housing, and by the project to "promote the use of human and regional resources".

4. Please specify the number of concessions accorded by the Bolivian Mining Corporation (COMIBOL) to co-operatives (section 24 of Supreme Decree No. 21377 of 1986) and their impact on employment in the mining sector.

5. The Committee notes the termination of subsidies by the State and employers' organisations to the Manpower Training Department, which is now within more realistic financial limits, formulating a training programme for priority production sectors. Please describe the programmes and policies adopted with regard to vocational training and the measures that are planned to co-ordinate education and training policies with employment prospects.