Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Non-Industrial Occupations) Convention, 1946 (No. 78) - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (Ratification: 1973)

Article 7(2) of the Convention. Supervision of the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Welfare is preparing a new Bill on occupational safety and health. The Committee expresses the firm hope that the Bill on occupational safety and health will be adopted in the near future and that it will contain provisions determining the measures of identification to ensure the application of the system of medical examination for fitness for employment to children and young persons engaged either on their own account or on account of their parents in itinerant trading or in any other occupation carried on in the streets or in places to which the public have access, as well as the other methods of supervision to be adopted for ensuring the strict enforcement of the Convention, in accordance with Article 7(2). In this respect, the Committee requests the Government to take into account the indications contained in the Medical Examination of Young Persons Recommendation, 1946 (No. 79), and particularly in Paragraph 14 on methods of supervision.

The Committee also invites the Government to refer to its comments concerning the Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1946 (No. 77).