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

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Uganda (Ratification: 1963)

Article 5 of the Convention. Periodical payments. The Committee notes the Government’s statement according to which the Committee’s comments on the Workers’ Compensation Act of 2000 and its application have been identified among the key items on the National Agenda for the Labour Advisory Board. The Committee thus hopes that the Government will not fail to ensure that the Labour Advisory Board will consider the issues raised by the Committee in full knowledge of the case and will have before it clear recommendations from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development on the legislative and practical measures necessary to give full effect to Article 5 of the Convention, which provides for the payment of benefits in case of permanent incapacity or death of the breadwinner in the form of periodical payments without limit of time.

Application of the Convention in practice. Please provide, as required by Part V of the report form, information, including statistics, on the manner in which effect is given to the Convention in practice, specifying, in particular, the number of occupational accidents registered in Uganda as well as the amount of accident compensation benefits paid to the victims.