Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 83rd ILC session (1996)

Medical Examination of Young Persons (Industry) Convention, 1946 (No. 77) - Paraguay (Ratification: 1966)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

1. Article 4 of the Convention. In its previous comments on the preliminary draft of the new Labour Code prepared by the Paraguayan Institute of Labour, the Committee observed that the text includes no provision to give effect to this Article of the Convention.

Referring to section 275 of the Labour Code, adopted by Act No. 213 of 29 June 1993, the Committee observed that the employer must provide a periodical medical examination for each worker, and pay the cost, and that a regulation would determine the time and form for conducting periodical medical examinations which shall be relevant to the risks involved in the worker's occupation. The Committee hopes that the regulation in question will be adopted shortly and requests the Government to send it a copy.

2. Article 6, paragraphs 1 and 2. For a number of years the Committee has drawn the Government's attention to the need to adopt appropriate measures for the vocational guidance and physical and vocational rehabilitation of children and young persons found by medical examination to be unsuited to certain types of work, or to have physical handicaps or limitations, and for cooperation between the labour, health, education and social services, in order to determine the nature and extent of such measures and to carry them out.

In its communication at the end of 1992, the Government stated that in order to partly resolve the problem it would be necessary to bring into force a ministerial resolution, the draft of which was attached to the communication. The Committee noted the text and indicated that it included provisions which could give effect to the two paragraphs cited of Article 6 of the Convention. Since no information has been given on the approval of this resolution, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would inform it whether the resolution in question has been adopted and supply a copy of the text.