Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2017, published 107th ILC session (2018)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - Suriname (Ratification: 1976)

List of occupational diseases. Implementing regulations. The Committee refers to its previous comments, in which it requested the Government to indicate whether workers, employed in the activities listed in the schedule of Convention No. 42 with regard to poisoning by mercury or lead, could be required to prove the occupational origin of their disease. The Committee notes that according to section 24(2) of the Industrial Accidents Act of 1947, the burden of proof of the occupational origin of a disease is shifted away from the workers, if the disease becomes notable during their time of employment or a certain time frame after its termination, fixed by decree. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether the above decree has been adopted and, if so, to provide a copy thereof.

Recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism. The Committee notes that, according to the recommendations made by the Tripartite Working Group of the Standards Review Mechanism, as approved by the ILO Governing Body, member States which have ratified the Convention are encouraged 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 the most up-to-date instruments in this subject area (GB.328/LILS/2/1). The Committee reminds the Government of the possibility of availing itself of ILO technical assistance in this respect.