Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2001, published 90th ILC session (2002)

Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

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 matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

  Article 4 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that its previous comments referred to the need to promote and develop collective bargaining to ensure that collective bargaining is not restricted to fixing wages but is, in practice, extended to other conditions of employment. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that: (1) the Ministry of Labour is promoting collective bargaining; (2) at confederation and enterprise level negotiations cover questions which go far beyond wages; (3) efforts have been made under the programme to modernize employment relations to train specialized personnel in the application and follow-up of collective agreements; and (4) this subject is to be dealt within the new Bolivian labour legislation.

In this connection, the Committee requests the Government to transmit in its next report a copy of the most relevant collective agreements concluded at national, industrial and enterprise levels in which the negotiations have not solely concerned questions of wages.