Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Cabo Verde (Ratification: 1979)

The Committee took note of the Government’s report received in February 2010, as well as of the observations of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Cape Verde (CCSL) on the application of the Conventions Nos 17 and 19, among others, communicated by the Government in March 2010. The Committee hopes that the Government will not fail to reply to these observations in its next detailed report due in 2012, and that this report will also include, in compliance with Part V of the report form, all the available statistical data, extracts from inspection reports and other relevant information, which would permit to throw light on the application of the Convention in practice.

The Committee further notes that, according to section 18(1) of the new Labour Code of 2007, foreign workers, their families or dependants who have been victims of occupational accidents are granted the same treatment in respect of compensation as the nationals of Cape Verde. With regard to questions raised in the direct request of 2009 concerning the condition of reciprocity imposed by section 3(1) of Legislative Decree No. 84/78 on compulsory occupational accident insurance, the Committee asks the Government to refer to the 2011 direct request on the Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19).