Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Fee-Charging Employment Agencies Convention (Revised), 1949 (No. 96) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1954)

The Committee recalls that the Governing Body at its 337th Session, held in October–November 2019, upon the recommendation of the Tripartite Working Group of the Standards Review Mechanism, classified Convention No. 96 as an outdated instrument and included an item on the Agenda of the 119th Session of the International Labour Conference (2030) to consider its abrogation or withdrawal. The Governing Body requested the Office to take follow-up measures with a view to actively encouraging the ratification of the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), as the most up-to-date instrument on private employment agencies. The Committee therefore encourages the Government to give effect to the decision adopted by the Governing Body at its 337th Session (October–November 2019) approving the recommendations of the Tripartite Working Group of the Standards Review Mechanism and to envisage the ratification of the most up-to-date instrument on this subject.

Part II of the Convention. Progressive abolition of fee-charging employment agencies. The Government indicates in its report that the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Welfare, through Ministerial Decision No. 1321/18 of 4 December 2018, approved the Regulations on the registration and operation of private employment agencies, which sets out the requirements for their operation, rights, duties, inspection, prohibitions and penalties (as subsequently amended by Ministerial Decision No. 108/19 of 1 February 2019). The Government adds that in 2022 and 2023 the General Directorate of Employment prepared a work plan on employment services based on the registration and supervision of the operation of private employment agencies, which envisaged the following phases: (i) the mapping of private employment agencies; (ii) the notification of private employment agencies of the Regulations; and (iii) verification of compliance with the Regulations by private employment agencies. The Committee notes that during the mapping phase it was established that 100 entities had employment mediation as their principal activity. The Committee notes the official public notice to operators on the supervision and registration of private employment agencies. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the results of the inspections undertaken and the number and nature of the violations reported and other information on the application of Part II of the Convention (for example, the extent of the activities of private employment agencies and the measures taken by the competent authority to supervise their activities).