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

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Mozambique (Ratification: 1977)

Article 2 of the Convention. Schedule of occupational diseases. The Committee notes with interest that the schedule of occupational diseases laid down by the new Labour Code (section 224(2) of Act No. 23/2007) is consistent with the schedule appended to the Convention. It also notes that section 224(4) provides that the industries and processes liable to cause occupational diseases must be covered by specific regulations, as was already specified in the previous Labour Code. The Committee points out that it has been drawing the Government’s attention to the need to issue such special regulations since the adoption of the previous Labour Code in 1985. In these circumstances, the Committee expresses the firm hope that the Government will seize the adoption of the new Labour Code as an opportunity to give effect without delay to section 224(4) so as to make the schedule of occupational diseases operational by specifying the industries and processes in which the origin of the disease is presumed to be occupational in nature.

Part V of the report form. The Government is asked in its next report to provide general information in the way in which the Convention is applied in practice, providing: relevant extracts of labour inspection reports; details of the industrial processes that cause the occupational diseases set forth in the Convention; the number of workers employed in such industries; the number of diseases reported; and the amounts of the benefits in cash and in kind that have been provided.