Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1996, published 85th ILC session (1997)

Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1965)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. The Committee hopes that a report will be transmitted for examination at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which referred to:

- the requirement of prior authorization for the establishment of a trade union (section 99 of the General Labour Act of 1939 and section 124 of the Decree of 1943).

The Committee noted that, according to the information provided by the Government, section 4 of the Legislative Decree of 7 February 1944 provides that any professional association or trade union may be freely established without the need for prior authorization for the purposes of section 125 of the Decree of 23 August 1943. The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to specify whether section 4 of the Legislative Decree of 7 February 1944 renders void the need for the executive authority to grant legal personality by a supreme decision for a trade union to be considered as legally established, as set out in section 124 of the Decree of 23 August 1943.