Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2019, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Workmen's Compensation (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 12) - Panama (Ratification: 1958)

Article 1 of the Convention. Scope of application. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to explain the reasons why the General Regulations of 2007 on affiliation and registration establish a required time period of one month (in the case of seasonal or casual agricultural workers) or three months (in the case of coffee workers) for affiliation to the Social Insurance Fund to become compulsory. The Committee observes that the Executive Board of the Social Insurance Fund has approved Resolution No. 52805-2018-J.D. of 29 August 2018 adopting the new General Regulations on affiliation and registration with respect to the Social Insurance Fund, section 75 of which establishes the obligation for agricultural employers to affiliate or register their seasonal workers for the purposes of occupational risks as soon as or before they begin work. The Committee notes with interest that section 75 also repeals the provision providing that seasonal coffee workers, engaged exclusively in the coffee harvest, must be affiliated to the Social Insurance Fund when they work for at least three months, even if the work is not continuous, in the same calendar year.