Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1990, publiée 77ème session CIT (1990)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report has not been received for the second year consecutively. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

I. 1. Article 6 of the Convention (in conjunction with Articles 10, 11, 17, 18, 23 and 24). The Committee requested the Government to supply detailed information on the supplementary non-compulsory social security scheme to which it referred with regard to the application of Parts II, III and IV of the Convention. The Committee also noted the information supplied by the Government to the effect that at present all sectors included in the Bolivian social security scheme are covered by the supplementary scheme. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply, by way of illustration, copies of the by-laws of supplementary social security funds.

2. Part V (Standards to be complied with by periodical payments), Articles 26 and 27 (in conjunction with Articles 10, 17 and 23). In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to supply certain statistics in order to enable it to assess whether the level of periodical benefits covered by Articles 10, 17 and 23 of the Convention corresponds to the percentage prescribed by the Schedule appended to Part V. As this information has not been supplied, the Committee once again requests the Government to indicate:

(a) if the Government wishes to have recourse to Article 26:

(i) the wage of a skilled manual male employee, selected in conformity with paragraph 6;

(ii) for each of the benefits covered by Articles 10, 17 and 23, the amount of the benefit, including the amount paid by the supplementary scheme, for a standard beneficiary (that is, a man with a spouse and two children, in the event of invalidity; a man with a spouse of pensionable age, in the event of old age; a widow with two children in the event of the death of the bread-winner), when the wage of this beneficiary or (in the event of his death) of his family bread-winner is equivalent to the wage of a skilled male manual employee;

(b)if the Government wishes to have recourse to Article 27, in so far as understanding that old-age, invalidity and survivors' benefits are not less than a prescribed minimum amount:

(i) the wage of an ordinary adult male labourer, selected in accordance with paragraph 4 of Article 27;

(ii)for each of the benefits covered by Articles 10, 17 and 23, the minimum amount of benefit, including the amount paid by the complementary scheme for a standard beneficiary (that is: a man with a spouse and two children, in the event of invalidity; a man with a spouse of pensionable age, in the event of old age; a widow with two children in the event of the death of the bread-winner).

3. Article 29. The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would supply, in future reports, information concerning the review of the rates of periodical benefits currently payable under Articles 10, 17 and 23, of the Convention following substantial changes in the cost of living.

II. The Committee has also been informed that a new draft Social Security Code has been prepared and is in the course of being adopted. It also notes that this draft provides for the review of the basic level of pensions and their automatic readjustment in the event of increases in wages and prices. The Committee hopes that this new Code will be adopted in the near future and that the Government will be able to supply the information that is requested in this respect in its next report and indicate the progress achieved with regard to the adoption of the Code.