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

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Sierra Leone (Ratification: 1961)

The Committee notes with regret that for the second consecutive year the Government's report has not been received. It must therefore repeat its previous observation which read as follows:

Article 5 of the Convention. For a number of years, the Committee has been drawing attention to the fact that sections 6, 7 and 8 of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance 1954, as amended in 1969, are not in conformity with this provision of the Convention, since, although they provide for periodical payments equivalent in theory to the amount of the wage, they restrict payment to a certain number of months, whereas the Convention, although it does not fix a rate for periodical payments, which may be only a percentage of the wage, provides for their payment throughout the whole contingency. In reply to the above comments of the Committee, the Government states that a technical co-operation mission in social security is under way. It hopes in future to be given recommendations concerning this Convention. It is also the Government's intention to re-examine the rates of the periodical payments and the Law Reform Commission has decided to discuss these matters. The Committee notes this information and once again hopes that the matters raised by the Committee for a number of years will be resolved in the near future.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.