Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Sierra Leone (Ratification: 2022)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report.

Part VI (Employment injury benefit), Articles 36 and 38 of the Convention. Periodic payments. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that employment injury benefits are provided as lump sum payments, the level of which depends on the medical condition of the injured person. The Committee recalls that under Articles 36 and 38 of the Convention, employment injury benefits in respect of incapacity for work, total loss of earning capacity likely to be permanent or corresponding loss of faculty, or the death of the breadwinner, shall be periodical payments provided throughout the contingency. The Committee further points out that as per Article 36(3) of the Convention, the periodical payment may be commuted for a lump sum only: (a) where the degree of incapacity is slight; or (b) where the competent authority is satisfied that the lump sum will be properly utilized. Recalling thatthe issue of the provision of periodic payments in case of employment injury has been raised under the Workmen’s Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) for many years, the Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that employment injury benefits are periodically provided throughout the contingency and are converted into a lump sum only in cases allowed by Article 36(3) of the Convention.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.