Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Germany (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee notes the Government’s report. It asks the Government to provide in its next report further information on the following aspects.

Occupational diseases. Article 14, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee refers to its 1999 observation, in which it referred to the comments received from the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB). According to the trade union organization, the statistics on occupational diseases are incomplete since they only cover those illnesses defined by the Federal Government as occupational diseases. Diseases associated with multiple causative factors are excluded from the scope of occupational diseases, and thus from the statistics. The Committee once again asks the Government to make its position clear in this regard. It invites the Government to indicate the specific definitions and methodology used in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention.

Industrial disputes. Article 15. The Committee again asks the Government to indicate which standards and directives are followed with regard to the compilation of statistics on industrial disputes, in accordance with Article 2.