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

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Sao Tome and Principe (Ratification: 1982)

Articles 5, 7, 9 and 10 of the Convention. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to indicate if any implementing regulations under Act No. 7 of 2004 on social protection have been adopted and, if not, what other measures were taken in order to give effect to the following Articles of the Convention: Article 5 (requirement to provide benefits for permanent partial incapacity); Article 7 (supplementary benefits where the victim needs the constant help of another person); and Articles 9 and 10 (the necessity to provide surgical care and the normal renewal of such artificial limbs and surgical appliances as are recognized to be necessary).

Conclusions and recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism. The Committee notes that, at its 328th Session in October 2016, the Governing Body of the ILO adopted the conclusions and recommendations formulated by the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM TWG), recalling that Conventions Nos 17 and 18 to which Sao Tome and Principe is party are outdated and charging the Office with follow-up work aimed at encouraging States party only to these Conventions to ratify the Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 [Schedule I amended in 1980] (No. 121), and/or the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), and accept the obligations in its Part VI, as these represent the most up-to-date instruments in this subject area. The Committee reminds the Government of the availability of ILO technical assistance in this regard.