Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Underground Work) Convention, 1965 (No. 124) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the following matters which were raised in its previous direct request.

The Committee noted the information supplied by the Government in its report.

It had requested the Government to take the necessary measures in order to ensure that, in the case of persons less than 21 years of age, periodical examinations are carried out at intervals of not more than one year in accordance with Article 2, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The Government stated in its report of 1986 that the National Council of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare, envisaged in Legislative Decree No. 16998 of 1979, would come into operation in the near future, and would take the necessary measures to ensure that effect was given to this provision of the Convention in all the sectors in question. The Committee noted this statement. It requests the Government to inform it of any developments in this respect. The Committee also requests the Government to indicate the measures that it is planning to take to bring employers to:

- keep records, in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 4, containing, in respect of persons under 21 years of age, their date of birth, and an indication of the nature of their occupation and a certificate attesting fitness for employment; and to

- make available to the workers' representatives at their request, the above information, in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, paragraph 5.