Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Convenio sobre la igualdad de trato (accidentes del trabajo), 1925 (núm. 19) - Guatemala (Ratificación : 1961)

Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government, according to which employers are obliged to record and notify the Occupational Safety and Health Department of the General Directorate for Social Welfare of all occupational accidents occurring throughout the county. The Committee observes that although the report indicates that the information is disaggregated by nationality, among other criteria, the statistical information provided only includes data on Guatemalan workers. The Committee requests the Government to provide data on occupational accidents occurring during the period covered by the next report, disaggregated by nationality.

The Committee further notes, according to the Government, that foreign workers are entitled to healthcare in respect of the risk of occupational accidents from the moment an employment relationship exists, without requirement of a prior period of contribution. However, the Committee notes that under the regulations in force, victims of an occupational accident are only entitled to cash benefits if they have made at least three months of contributions in the six months prior to the month in which the accident occurs. In this context, the Committee requests the Government to report on the number of national and foreign workers who sustain occupational accidents that do not have access to cash benefits from failure to fulfil the required contribution period.

[The Government is asked to reply in full to the present comments in 2027.]