Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

Weekly Rest (Commerce and Offices) Convention, 1957 (No. 106) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

The Committee notes with regret that the Government has taken no steps to bring the national legislation into line with the provisions of Article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention under which compensatory rest of a duration at least equivalent to the period provided for under Article 6 must be granted, without prejudice to any monetary compensation, where temporary exemptions are made in respect of weekly rest. It recalls that since 1976 it has been commenting on the need to amend to this effect section 31 of Regulatory Decree No. 244 of 1943, which provides that remuneration may be granted instead of compensatory rest. The Committee again expresses the hope that the Government will take the necessary steps to this end as soon as possible.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2003.]