Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) - Uruguay (Ratification: 1988)

1. The Committee notes the report sent by the Government in August 2004 containing detailed information on the Programme of vocational training for disabled persons (PROCLADIS), for which persons aged 16-39 are eligible. The Committee refers to its previous direct request and asks the Government to indicate the other measures adopted for formulating, implementing and periodically reviewing a national policy on vocational rehabilitation and employment for "all categories" of disabled persons as required by Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Convention. Please state the recent measures which have been adopted under Act No. 16095 of 1989.

2. Consultation of representative organizations of employers and workers. The Committee notes that as from July 2002 the Coordination Unit of PROCLADIS was supplemented with the representation of the other two social sectors of the National Employment Council, one employers’ representative and one workers’ representative. The Committee once again asks the Government to describe in detail the consultations held with employers’ and workers’ representatives for implementing a national policy on the matters covered by Article 5 of the Convention.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2006.]