Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Costa Rica (Ratification: 1972)

1. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in reply to its previous comments on Part XIII (Common provisions), Article 69(f) (in conjunction with Article 38).

2. Part VIII of the Convention (Maternity benefit). With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes that there is no ceiling to the maternity benefits prescribed in the law. It also notes that in Costa Rica, pregnant workers are paid their salaries in full during four months of the pregnancy. It asks the Government to indicate which provisions of the law establish the payment of this benefit.

3. The Committee observes that the report does not contain the detailed statistical information required by the report form since, according to the Government, Costa Rica is in the process of modifying some of the plans that constitute its social security system. The Committee hopes that once the above reform of the social security system has been completed the Government will be able to provide full information on the following points:

(a) Part VII (Family benefit), Article 44. Please indicate whether the total value of the benefits granted to the persons protected (i.e. the total amount of the periodical cash payments provided to families in respect of dependent children, as well as the costs of supplying food or clothing in the various rural centres) represent, in accordance with Article 44: (a) either 3 per cent of the wage of an ordinary adult male labourer, as determined in accordance with the rules laid down in Article 66 of this instrument, multiplied by the total number of children of all persons protected; (b) or 1.5 per cent of the said wage multiplied by the total number of children of all residents.

(b) Part XIV (Miscellaneous provisions), Article 76, paragraph 1(b)(ii), of the Convention (in conjunction with Article 36). Please provide the information required under Articles 65 (Titles I, II and IV) or 66 (Titles I, II and IV) of the report form adopted by the Governing Body, with regard to employment injury benefit (Part VI of the Convention).