Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Germany (Ratification: 1991)

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 comments.

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Article 8 of the Convention. According to information available in the ILO, on the occasion of the 2011 census, a new method will be introduced which differs considerably from the traditional population census. The source of the detailed population statistics are continuous population registers. A register-based census predominantly uses existing administrative registers – above all population registers and registers of the Federal Employment Agency. The Committee encourages the Government to supply relevant data as soon as practicable.

Article 9. The Committee draws to the attention of the Government the international new standards concerning the Measurement of Working Time, (see Resolution I, adopted by the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians at: (http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Statistics/standards/resolutions/lang--en/docName--WCMS_112455/index.htm), whose larger number of concepts and measures would seem to be better aligned to national practice).

Article 14. In response to the previous Committee’s comments, made on the basis of the 1999 observation from the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB) as to the scope of the definition of an occupational disease, the Government indicates that the only factor determining whether an illness is included in the list of occupational diseases is that a causal relationship to work activities should have been scientifically proven. Moreover, if an illness is due to several different work-related causes or harmful substances in combination, the disease in question is recorded in the statistics under the reference number of the occupational disease most heavily influenced by the activity or substance in question. The report summarizes the procedures and legal basis for the reporting of information and compilation of statistics of industrial injuries and cases of occupational diseases and notes that the Occupational Diseases Ordinance, covering both sets of statistics, was last amended on 11 July 2009. Appended to the report are copies of the Occupational Diseases Ordinance, instructions for insurance companies, as well as comprehensive statistical reports on occupational diseases, statutory accident insurance, and safety and health at work. The Committee notes with interest this information.

Article 15. Referring to its previous comments, the Committee notes that the Governent’s report provides no new information regarding statistics of industrial disputes for the period June 2004 to May 2009, nor is any new methodological information available in the ILO. The Committee asks once again the Government to indicate which standards and directives are followed with regard to the compilation of statistics on industrial disputes, in accordance with Article 2.