Observation (CEACR) - adoptée 2002, publiée 91ème session CIT (2003)

1. Article 21 of the Convention (adjustment of long-term benefits). In reply to the Committee’s previous comments concerning the adjustment of periodical payments, the Government attaches to its report a table on the wage trends serving as a basis for the calculation of periodical payments for employment injury from 1973 to 2001, which indicates the threshold and ceiling wage levels set by inter-ministerial order each year. The Committee also notes from the Government’s report on Convention No. 102 that, since 1999, following a general increase in wages, periodical payments have been increased by 6 per cent. In order to be able to assess this adjustment fully, the Committee hopes that the Government’s next report will contain, in addition to the updated table in question, statistical data for the whole period since 1999 on trends in the cost of living index and the general increase in wages in the country, as well as trends in benefit levels (average benefit per beneficiary and benefit for a standard beneficiary), as requested under Article 21 of the Convention in the report form adopted by the Governing Body.

2. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee regrets to note that, despite the promise made by the Government in its report in 1999, neither the previous report nor the present report contain statistical data on the scope and level of benefits, as requested in the report form under Articles 4 and 19 or 20 of the Convention. The Committee trusts that the Government will make every effort to provide this information in its next report.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 2004.]