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Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Peru (RATIFICATION: 1986)

1. The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in reply to its earlier comments. It notes, in particular, the detailed description of the special programme promoting employment opportunities for disabled workers, in the application of Act No. 23285 and Legislative Decree No. 728, as well as statistical data for the period of 1991-92. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide information on practical application of the Convention, as requested by point V of the report form, including the updated statistics (for example, with respect to particular areas or branches of activity or particular categories of disabled workers). Please supply the texts of collective agreements, referred to in the Government's previous report, in which the reservation of work posts for disabled persons has been included.

Article 8 of the Convention. Further to its earlier comments, the Committee notes the Government's brief indications concerning the reorganized Regional Directorates of Labour and Social Promotion, which are responsible for vocational rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons and, in particular, for the application of the above-mentioned special employment programme. The Regional Directorates have been provided with the necessary human resources in order to be able to fulfil their functions and are going to coordinate their efforts with vocational training institutions, universities and public and private establishments. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would describe in more detail measures taken in practice, by these Regional Directorates in coordination with other public and private bodies concerned, to promote the establishment and development of vocational rehabilitation and employment services for disabled persons in rural areas and remote communities, as required by this Article.

Article 9. In its earlier comments the Committee noted the Government's indications to the effect that the National Council for the Integration of the Disabled adopted certain measures to ensure availability of suitably qualified vocational rehabilitation staff, having organized various courses on the subject, in various regions of the country, which have been conducted by qualified specialists. It also noted the Government's request for technical assistance in this field, addressed to the ILO. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to supply information on new developments in this sphere and to continue to describe measures aiming at ensuring the training and availability of rehabilitation counsellors and other suitably qualified staff responsible for the vocational guidance, vocational training, placement and employment of disabled persons, in accordance with this Article.

2. As regards the observations, already noted by the Committee in its previous comments, received from the Peruvian Information and Communication Centre for the Disabled (CICIP), which expressed its concern about the unstable employment situation of the disabled public service employees and asked for a special treatment of disabled persons in connection with the Government's intention to reduce the public administration personnel, the Government indicates that this matter falls within the competence of the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide, in its next report, information on measures taken or envisaged by the INAP in order to remedy this situation and supply any other information, if available, concerning the application of vocational rehabilitation and employment measures to the disabled public service employees.