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

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Morocco (Ratification: 1956)

Part V of the report form. Application of the Convention in practice. According to the information provided by the Government, the total number of benefits paid in Morocco in 2011 to foreign workers or their dependants as compensation for industrial accidents occurring between 1942 and 1981 is 70, of which 68 are paid to French nationals, one to an Algerian national and one to a Polish national. In its previous report the Government indicated that the number of foreign workers employed in Morocco each year averages 5,700, including 38 per cent French, 13.7 per cent nationals of Arab countries, 9 per cent Turks, 4.5 per cent Spaniards, 4.5 per cent Romanians, 4 per cent Bulgarians and 3.9 per cent Italians. In view of the number of foreign workers employed in Morocco each year, the Committee requests the Government to indicate in its next report the number of industrial accidents giving rise to the payment of compensation, both in Morocco and to places of residence abroad, to foreign nationals since 1981. The Committee further requests the Government to provide any new information relating to the laws and regulations that ensure the principle of equal treatment under Convention No. 19 is being effectively applied.