Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Yemen (Ratification: 1969)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that the next report will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous comments.

Repetition

Article 1(2) of the Convention. Payment of pensions abroad. For many years, the Committee has been requesting the Government to amend section 95 of the Social Security Law No. 26 of 1991 with a view to ensuring equal treatment of foreign and national workers in respect of accident compensation. In its report, the Government indicates that the draft amendment of the abovementioned section was approved by the House of Representatives (Majlis al Nouwab) and submitted to the Presidency. However, the General Federation of Yemen’s Trade Unions requested the Presidency not to approve the draft amended law, as section 156(2) still specifies that pensions due to foreign insured persons or their dependants who return to their country of origin may not be transferred, according to the provisions of this law, unless there is a reciprocity agreement regulating it. In this regard, the Government indicates that coordination was ensured with the Public Corporation for Social Security, the General Federation of Yemen’s Trade Unions, the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the experts in social security so as to reformulate the amendments to the law. The Committee hopes that the reformulated amendments will be adopted soon so as to ensure transfer of benefits abroad to foreign workers from countries party to the Convention, as well as their dependants, regardless of the existence of reciprocity agreements. The Committee requests the Government to provide data for 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 on the number of pensions due to foreign insured persons or their dependants who return to their country of origin and the number of those persons actually paid.