Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Haiti (Ratification: 1955)

The Committee notes 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 previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report, in which it indicates that it is undertaking to ensure that all victims of occupational accidents and diseases and their dependants benefit from conditions of compensation at least equal to those provided for under the Convention. In this connection, the Government intends to promote the restructuration and activation of the competent body in respect of compensation of occupational accidents (OFATMA). This body, having been through a period of difficulty and partial discredit, is working to regain the confidence of employers and workers. Taking its possibilities and means into account, OFATMA is particularly eager to render the inspection service more efficient, to maintain an up to date national index of protected workers and to record the number of occupational accidents and take the steps necessary to their compensation.

The Committee notes this information. It requests the Government to continue to supply information on the measures taken to reinforce the efficacy of the occupational accidents compensation system, particularly those intended to ensure that all workers protected by the legislation are affiliated to OFATMA’s occupational accidents compensation branch. In this connection the Committee requests the Government, in conformity with Part V of the report form, to give a general appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied, as well as statistical data, in particular as concerns the scope of application.