Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Unemployment Provision Convention, 1934 (No. 44) - Peru (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes the Government’s report, received in September 2010. The Committee observes that for the last 20 years the Government continues to refer to the system of compensation on the basis of length of service established by Legislative Decree No. 650 of 1991, which may not be considered as constituting an unemployment protection system in accordance with the requirements set forth in this Convention. The Committee regrets to note that the Government has been unable to set up an unemployment insurance scheme, which it had pledged to establish when ratifying the Convention half a century ago. The Committee wishes to draw the Government’s attention to the Committee’s recommendation made in its comprehensive observation published in the report of 2010, concerning the need to elaborate a national strategy in Peru for the consolidation and development of a sustainable social security system, which would allow the State to fully exploit all of the potential offered by international social security standards to ensure the good administration of the schemes and allow the gradual extension of coverage to the entire population. In this context, the Committee hopes that the Government will spare no effort in the very near future to set up an unemployment insurance system in accordance with the Convention.