Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

1. Article 1 of the Convention. In its report on Convention No. 77, the Government indicates that the adoption of the General Regulations on Health, Occupational Safety and Welfare will enable provisions on the medical examination of young people to be adopted. The Committee hopes that such measures will apply to young people who are employed in non-industrial jobs.

2. Article 2. See the comment under Convention No. 77.

3. The Committee asks the Government to take into consideration Recommendation No. 79 on the medical examination of young persons, particularly paragraph 14 on methods for applying such examinations to young people engaged, either on their own account or on account of their parents, in itinerant trading or any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access.