Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Workmen's Compensation (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 12) - Antigua and Barbuda (Ratification: 1983)

Effect given to the Convention in practice. In its direct request of 2008, the Committee asked the Government to specify the number of wage earners employed in agriculture in the country as well as the benefits in cash and in kind that have been granted to such workers in cases of industrial accidents, in conformity with provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance No. 24 of 1956. In its reply, the Government states that no industrial accident was recorded in any agricultural establishments between 2007 and 2012. The Committee notes with concern that the same statement is repeated by the Government in all its reports since 1986, which consequently contained no information on the application of the Convention in practice. The Committee also notes the absence of such information in the Government reports on Convention No 17.

In order to enable the Government to understand better to what extent Convention No. 12 is applied in practice, the Committee asks the Government to review in its next report the procedures by which the industrial accidents are notified and registered by the competent authorities and to provide detailed information and data on:

• -the number of industrial accidents registered in the country by branch of activity;
• -the actions taken by the labour inspection services to identify and investigate cases of industrial accidents, including in agriculture; and
• -the amount of accident compensation benefits paid to workers.