Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 (No. 103) - Guatemala (Ratification: 1989)

Article 1 of the Convention. In reply to the Committee’s comments, the Government indicates in its report for the period ending 1 September 2002 that the Guatemalan Social Security Institute (IGSS) has completed the actuarial studies so that it can decide upon the extension of social security to three new departments which did not have health and maternity services. It adds that it hopes that by the end of 2003 these services will be available in all departments. The Committee notes this information with interest. It requests the Government to provide detailed information in its next report on the progress achieved in the extension of the coverage of the sickness and maternity schemes, both in geographical terms to the various departments and regions of the country, and to the various categories of women workers and enterprises. The Committee recalls that, in accordance with Article 1, the Convention applies to women employed in industrial enterprises and in non-industrial and agricultural occupations, including women wage earners working at home, in both the public and the private sectors and irrespective of the size of the enterprise. The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would provide copies of the relevant decisions of the IGSS relating to this extension, with an indication of the departments covered and those which, as the case may be, are not yet covered. Finally, the Committee trusts that the Government will not fail to provide detailed statistics on the number of women workers actually covered by the sickness and maternity scheme of the IGSS in relation to the total number of women employed in the various departments of the country.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2005.]