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

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1977)

Articles 6 and 9 of the Convention. In its previous request, the Committee took note of Supreme Decrees Nos. 19524 of 23 April 1983 and 20255 of 24 May 1985 which regulate the terms and conditions of employment of the workers temporarily employed for sugar cane and cotton harvest. It requests the Government to supply information, in accordance with its intention as expressed in the report, on any further measures taken regarding the terms and conditions of their employment and on similar measures taken or envisaged in respect of other categories of migrant workers, as well as information on the practical application of these Supreme Decrees in accordance with point V of the report form.

Article 7. The Committee requests the Government to supply in its future reports information on any measures taken or envisaged to encourage the transfer of part of the workers' wages and savings from the area of labour utilization to the area of labour supply, in accordance with this provision of the Convention.

Article 8. The Committee notes the Government's indication of efforts made for updating the Agreement concluded in May 1964 between the Governments of Bolivia and of Argentina for regulating the work of Bolivian temporary labourers in sugar and tobacco establishments in Argentina, which the Committee noted in its previous request.

The Committee recalls that it requested the Government to supply information on measures taken or envisaged to give effect to paragraph 3 of this Article concerning facilities for enabling the worker to transfer part of his wages and savings to his home. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the development towards the updating of the above Agreement, with particular reference to this point.

The Committee also noted the Government's reference in its previous report to a project of repatriation from Argentinean territory of about 100,000 Bolivian migrants with the cooperation of the International Organization for Migration. It again requests the Government to supply information on the development of this matter.

Article 15, paragraphs 1 and 3. The Committee previously noted that section 7, second paragraph, of Supreme Decree No. 20255 provides for the obligation for the employer to pay for the transport of children of the worker under the age of 14 years. In the absence of reply in this regard, the Committee again requests the Government to indicate whether educational facilities are available for these children accompanying the sugar-cane and cotton harvest workers, and if so, whether the employment of those below the school-leaving age during school hours is prohibited. It also requests the Government to supply information on measures taken for the progressive development of education, vocational training and apprenticeship in the whole country.