Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes the reply to its 1990 observation, in which, as the Government stated previously in its 1989 report, it would be neither appropriate nor practical to establish a system of labour inspection in agriculture as prescribed by the Convention. The Government gives two grounds for this: the lack of standards to regulate the rights and duties emanating from agricultural labour (except in the case of sugar cane and cotton harvest workers who, by two Supreme Decrees of 1983 and 1984, were brought within the scope of the General Labour Act and its Regulatory Decree); and the sparsity of and difficulty of access to agricultural undertakings.

The Committee notes with regret that little progress has been made in applying the Convention, which Bolivia ratified in 1977. The Committee wishes to express once again its hope that the measures needed to establish a system of inspection covering all agricultural undertakings will be adopted; it asks the Government to supply any available information on the progress made in this respect.

[The Government is asked to supply full information at the 79th Session of the Conference.]