Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

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, that the Regional Direction of Labour and Social Promotion, of the Ministry of Labour, has started the implementation of special programmes promoting employment opportunities for workers having difficulties in access to the labour market, such as young workers, women with family responsibilities and disabled workers, in the application of Legislative Decree No. 728, Title V, Chapter I. It also notes from the report that the Government is trying to stimulate the reservation of a certain number of work posts for disabled persons to be included into collective agreements. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would describe in more detail the special programmes for disabled workers referred to above and to supply, with its next report, the texts of collective agreements in which the reservation of work posts for disabled persons has been included. The Committee further notes that the Government has been experiencing certain difficulties caused by shortages of human and material resources at the first stage of practical realization of the Selective Placement System referred to in section 138(b) of the above Legislative Decree No. 728. It hopes that, in its next report, the Government will be able to provide information on practical implementation of the Convention, including for example statistical information on the number of jobs created for disabled persons under special programmes provided for in the Decree, number of disabled persons placed in employment, if possible with respect to particular areas or branches of activity or particular categories of disabled workers, as required by point V of the report form.

Article 8 of the Convention. Further to its earlier comments, the Committee notes from the Government's report the information on the activities of Transitional Regional Administration Councils, which are responsible for vocational rehabilitation and employment of disabled persons during the period of administrative reorganization and restructuring of the Regional Governments. The Committee reiterates its hope that the Government will be in a position to supply, in its next report, information on measures aiming at promoting 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. The Government indicates once again that the National Council for the Integration of the Disabled has 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 in this field. It would be grateful if the Government would continue to supply information on 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. The Committee also notes the Government's request for technical assistance in this field, addressed to the ILO. It hopes that the ILO will be in a position to respond positively to this request.

2. In its previous comments the Committee noted the observations received in November 1992 from the Peruvian Information and Communication Centre for the Disabled (CICIP). This organization 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 Committee noted that these observations were sent to the Government, in January and November 1993, for such comments as might be judged appropriate. It observes that no comments have been supplied by the Government as to the substance of these observations. The Committee therefore reiterates its hope that the Government will refer to these observations in its next report and will make such comments as it considers appropriate in order to enable the Committee to examine them in substance at its next session.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1994.]