Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Trinidad and Tobago (Ratification: 1963)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which reads as follows:

The Committee notes the fact that the Government is currently in the process of reviewing the legislation concerning compensation for work-related accidents – the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Chapter 88:05) and the National Insurance Act (Chapter 32:01). In this respect, the Committee requests the Government to provide information in its next report on any new legislation adopted and, where appropriate, to provide copies.