Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

The Committee notes the Government's report.

Article 4 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that its previous comments referred to the need to promote and develop collective bargaining to ensure that collective bargaining is not restricted to fixing wages but is, in practice, extended to other conditions of employment. The Committee notes from the Government's report that: (1) the Ministry of Labour is promoting collective bargaining; (2) at confederation and enterprise level negotiations cover questions which go far beyond wages; (3) efforts have been made under the programme to modernize employment relations to train specialized personnel in the application and follow-up of collective agreements; and (4) this subject is to be dealt within the new Bolivian labour legislation.

In this connection, the Committee requests the Government to transmit in its next report a copy of the most relevant collective agreements concluded at national, industrial and enterprise levels in which the negotiations have not solely concerned questions of wages.