Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Unemployment Provision Convention, 1934 (No. 44) - Peru (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes that, despite the Government’s indication in its previous report of its willingness to establish an unemployment insurance system in order to conform to the provisions of the Convention, no actual measures have been adopted in this regard. In view of the many years which have passed since the Convention was ratified by Peru, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the Government will pursue the initiative to establish an unemployment insurance system in the country. To this end, the Committee invites the Government to do everything possible to undertake the actuarial studies in the near future which are an essential prerequisite to the establishment of such a system. In this regard, the Committee recalls that, in order to give effect to the Convention, ratifying States must guarantee to involuntarily unemployed workers benefits or allowances paid under a scheme which may be a compulsory insurance scheme, a voluntary insurance scheme, a combination of a compulsory and voluntary insurance scheme, or any of these alternatives combined with a complementary assistance scheme (Article 1 of the Convention).

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2010.]