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

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1983)

Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee notes with interest the copy supplied by the Government of the Act approving the Andean Instrument on Labour Migration (Official Gazette No. 2, 310 of 20 September 1978), which provides, among other things, for equal labour rights for migrant workers and workers of the country of immigration (article 12) and for facilities for the transfer of migrant workers' wages and savings to their homes (article 14), in compliance with this provision of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the Government's future reports will include information on any other agreements of a similar nature.

Article 12. The Committee notes that section 108(1)(d) of the Organic Labour Act, 1990, to which the Government refers, regulates the payment upon termination of an employment relationship. It notes the Government's statement that it hopes to resolve other points in the Regulations under the Organic Labour Act. The Committee requests the Government to report on any progress made with a view to limit the amount of advances on wages that may be made and to make any advance in excess of the prescribed amount legally irrecoverable.

Article 15. The Committee notes that the information supplied by the Government concerns mainly pre-primary education. It hopes that the Government will include in its future reports information on the development of broad systems of education and vocational training, with particular reference to the availability of educational services in the interior of the country.