Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Sickness Insurance (Sea) Convention, 1936 (No. 56) - Peru (Ratification: 1962)

Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention. Cash benefits under compulsory sickness insurance scheme. Further to its previous observation, the Committee notes the adoption of Resolution SBS No. 14707-2010 of 15 November 2010 concerning the dissolution of the Fishers’ Social Benefits and Social Security Fund (CBSSP). The Government had previously indicated that cash benefits to fishers affiliated to the CBSSP were paid directly by the employers, which nonetheless implied the absence of a sickness insurance scheme administered by a self-governing institution, as required under this Convention. Following the dissolution of the CBSSP, the Committee requests the Government to indicate how it ensures in practice the payment, under all circumstances, of cash benefits for a minimum period of the first 26 weeks of incapacity and also to detail any measures taken or planned for reorganizing and operating an insurance institution responsible for providing the benefits prescribed by the Convention.

In addition, the Committee notes the observations of the General Confederation of Workers of Peru (CGTP), which were transmitted to the Government on 28 September 2010, concerning the absence of legislative provisions guaranteeing the payment of cash benefits for at least the first 26 weeks of incapacity and also the Government’s failure to engage in nationwide consultations with a view to addressing the problems of social security in the fishing sector. The Committee requests the Government to transmit any comments it may wish to make in reply to the observations of the CGTP.