Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1989, published 76th ILC session (1989)

Sickness Insurance (Sea) Convention, 1936 (No. 56) - Mexico (Ratification: 1984)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in reply to its earlier comments.

Article 4, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The Committee notes, in particular, the detailed explanations in the report concerning the interpretation of section 204-IV of the Federal Labour Act. It would be grateful if the Government would supply with its next report copies of the collective agreements concluded by the Mexican Institute of Social Security with shipping enterprises of the country, to which reference is made in the report.

Article 7. The Committee takes due note of the explanations in the report concerning different situations, treated under the national legislation, in which the right to insurance benefit shall continue in respect of sickness occurring during a definite period after the termination of the last engagement. The Committee recalls in this connection that in accordance with Article 7 the said period shall be fixed in such a way as to cover the normal interval between successive engagements. The Committee therefore asks the Government once again to indicate whether the period of eight weeks provided for in section 118 of the Social Security Act is sufficient to cover the normal interval between successive engagements in conformity with the provision of this Article.

It would also be grateful if the Government would forward, in its next report, a copy of the resolution 12/85 of the Technical Council of the Mexican Institute of Social Security which extends up to one year the period during which the right to insurance benefit shall continue in respect of an insured person who is deprived of a remunerated work.