Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1988, published 75th ILC session (1988)

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Comoros (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes that the Government has no changes to point out since its last report. However, it notes that the texts to give effect to the 1984 Labour Code are currently being prepared and will be transmitted to the ILO as soon as they are enacted. The Committee hopes that, while drafting the above texts, the Government will give full effect to the provisions of the Convention referred to in its previous comments.

1. Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee noted that the Government proposed to amend section 29 of Decree No. 57-245 of 24 February 1957 concerning compensation for industrial accidents and occupational diseases, in order to give effect to this provision of the Convention, which stipulates that equality of treatment in respect of compensation for industrial accidents must be guaranteed to foreign workers and their dependents without any condition as to residence. The Committee would like to know what progress has been made in this respect.

2. Article 2. The Committee noted that though no special agreements had been concluded with other bodies or States in accordance with this provision of the Convention, the workers referred to in this Article are covered by the national legislation while working in the country, even if only temporarily as permitted by this provision of the Convention.