Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118) - Sint Maarten

In its report received in August 2011, the Government states that the Convention was ratified by the Netherlands in 1965, and made applicable to the Netherlands Antilles the same year, and applies now to Sint Maarten as of 10 October 2010, the date on which Sint Maarten acquired a new status within the Netherlands after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. The Committee recalls that the Netherlands has denounced the Convention in 2004 since its new legislation did not give full effect to the provisions of the Convention. As regards the legislation of Sint Maarten listed in the Government’s report, the Committee notes that it was adopted back in the 1960s, but that two major legislative reforms are under way: a pension reform and the introduction of a National Health Insurance. The Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report as to whether the legislation prepared in the reform process gives full effect to the provisions of the Convention.