Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Merchant Shipping (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 147) - Trinidad and Tobago (Ratification: 1999)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report. It requests the Government to provide additional information on the following point.

Article 2(a). (Conventions listed in the Appendix to Convention No. 147, but not ratified by Trinidad and Tobago).

In order to allow the Committee to assess the substantial equivalence of the social security measures with the provisions of Conventions Nos. 55, 56 and 130, respectively, the Committee requests the Government to indicate which of these three Conventions the Government intends to apply for the purposes of substantial equivalence. Please also indicate the specific provisions of the national legislation substantially equivalent to the selected Convention and provide copies of the respective laws and regulations.