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

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

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes from the information contained in the Government's report that section 29 of Decree No. 57-245 of 24 February 1957 concerning compensation for industrial accidents and occupational diseases has still not been amended. It recalls that section 29 of the above Decree restricts, and in certain cases, abolishes entitlements to compensation for industrial accidents only for foreign workers or their dependants in the event of residence abroad, contrary to Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention, which stipulates that equality of treatment in respect of compensation for industrial accidents must be guaranteed to foreign workers and their dependants without any condition as to residence. The Committee hopes that the Government will be able to indicate in its next report the measures taken to amend the above-mentioned legislation, in accordance with its assurances, in order to give full effect to the Convention on this point.

Furthermore, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide, as soon as they are adopted, the texts implementing the Labour Code of 1984 which, according to the Government, are to give full effect to the provisions of the Convention.

[The Government is asked to report in detail for the period ending 30 June 1993.]