Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

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

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its direct request of 2000, which read as follows:

Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention. In its previous comments, the Committee drew the Government’s attention to the need to formally abolish the conditions of residence set out in section 29 of Decree No. 57-245 of 24 February 1957, so that all nationals (and their dependants) of States which have ratified the Convention are granted the same treatment as the nationals of Djibouti with regard to compensation for industrial accidents without any condition as to residence and irrespective of the conclusion of any reciprocity agreements to this effect. In reply, the Government indicates in its last report that the abovementioned section 29 is invoked only occasionally under the national social protection scheme. Although it has not yet enacted new measures ensuring full conformity of legislation with this provision of the Convention, the Government reaffirms its intention to repeal the provisions on residence conditions in this section in the context of preparing the new Labour Code. The Committee takes due note of this information. It trusts that the Government will be able to indicate in its next report the adoption of measures intended to amend the provisions of the abovementioned section 29 of Decree No. 57-245 in order to ensure full application of Article 1, paragraph 2, of the Convention.

The Committee requests the Government to provide, in accordance with Part V of the report form, information on the application in practice of the Convention, particularly statistics, if available.