Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Pakistan (Ratification: 1927)

1. The Committee notes with interest, from the information provided by the Government, that Schedule III annexed to the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1923 (as amended), still mentions poisoning by mercury and the direct consequences of this poisoning.

2. The Committee also notes the comments submitted by the All Pakistan Federation of Trades Unions on the application of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government in its next report to reply to the abovementioned comments regarding the exclusion from the scope of the Workmen's Compensation Act, of workers whose wages exceed a fixed ceiling; the revision of rates of benefit and the adaptation of the schedule of occupational diseases to the use of new chemical substances.