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

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Malawi (Ratification: 1965)

Article 1 of the Convention. Transfer abroad of industrial accident benefits. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the transfer abroad of cash benefits in the event of industrial accidents has only occurred in one case during the period covered by the report, where benefits were paid to beneficiaries in Mozambique following the death of an accident victim. The Committee also notes that the Government’s report contains no information on the outcome of the work of the Joint Permanent Commission of Cooperation which was established to deal with employment and immigration issues affecting nationals of neighbouring countries such as Mozambique, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Committee would therefore be grateful if the Government would continue to provide information in future reports on the manner in which the payment of industrial accident benefits takes place in practice in the event of residency abroad, both with regard to Malawian nationals and nationals of the 121 countries that have ratified the Convention who have suffered industrial accidents in Malawi (and their dependants), if any. Please provide statistics relating to the number and nationality of foreign workers employed in the country and, as soon as such statistics are available, the amounts transferred abroad in the event of industrial accidents.