Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2016, published 106th ILC session (2017)

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

Article 2 of the Convention. Schedule of occupational diseases. The Committee notes the adoption of Decree No. 62/2013 regulating employment injury benefits in line with articles 269 and 233(5) of the new Labour Code, Act No. 23/2007. It also notes that paragraph 20(4) provides that industries and professions with greater propensity to cause occupational diseases shall be covered by specific regulations provided for in section 224(4) of Act No. 23/2007, which have not yet been adopted. The Committee asks the Government to specify when these regulations will be adopted so as to give effect to sections 224(2) and 269 of Act No. 23/2007 and paragraph 20(4) of Decree No. 62/2013, operationalize the schedule of occupational diseases laid down by the new Labour Code, and specify the industries and processes in which the origin of the disease is presumed to be occupational in nature.

Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the Government in response to the direct request and, in particular, the statistics regarding labour inspection and on accidents resulting from employment, which, however, do not concern cases of occupational diseases. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to specify, in its next report, the number of occupational diseases reported in line with the schedule of occupational diseases laid down in section 224(2) of the new Labour Code; the details of the industrial processes that cause the occupational diseases; the number of workers employed in such industries; and the amounts of the benefits in cash and in kind that have been provided following an occupational disease since the adoption of Decree No. 62/2013.

Conclusions and recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism. The Committee notes that, at its 328th Session in October 2016, the Governing Body of the ILO adopted the conclusions and recommendations formulated by the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM TWG), recalling that Conventions Nos 17 and 18 to which Mozambique is party are outdated and charging the Office with follow-up work aimed at encouraging States party only to these Conventions to ratify the Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 [Schedule I amended in 1980] (No. 121), and/or the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), and accept, the obligations in its Part VI, as these represent the most up-to-date instruments in this subject area. The Committee reminds the Government of the availability of ILO technical assistance in this regard.