Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

Seafarers' Pensions Convention, 1946 (No. 71) - Peru (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in reply to the observations made in March 1988 by the Fishermen's Federation of Puerto Supe concerning the rates of the contributions payable to the fishermen's social security and benefits fund (Caja de beneficios y seguridad social del pescador). According to this organisation the contribution rates would be 7.5 per cent as far as the fishermen's pension scheme is concerned (5 per cent payable by the shipowners and 2.5 by the fishermen) whereas this rate would be 9 per cent (6 per cent payable by the employers and 3 per cent by the employees) as far as the pension scheme for other workers is concerned.

The Committee wishes to recall that where the seafarers' pension scheme guarantees old-age pensions at the level prescribed by paragraph 1(a) of Article 3 of the Convention, this instrument does not provide for rules pertaining to financing of the scheme, other than those provided for in paragraph 2 of Article 3, under which "seafarers collectively shall not contribute more than half the cost of the pensions payable under the scheme".