Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Article 6, paragraphs 1 and 2, of the Convention. In previous comments, 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 last report, the Government indicates that measures to ensure the formal application of the above-mentioned provisions of the Convention are included in the preliminary draft of the new Labour Code prepared by the Paraguayan Institute of Labour and that the above draft is now before the National Parliament.

The Committee notes the provisions on the medical examination of children and young persons contained in the above draft and observes that the latter includes no provision to give effect to Article 4 of the Convention under which, in occupations which involve high health risks medical examinations and re-examinations for fitness for employment shall be required until at least the age of 21 years.

The Committee hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to ensure that the new Code takes into account the provision contained in Article 4 of the Convention and that it will provide a copy of the Code as soon as it has been adopted.