Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Workmen's Compensation (Accidents) Convention, 1925 (No. 17) - Nicaragua (Ratification: 1934)

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee took note of the Quarterly Statistical Report of the Nicaraguan Institute of Social Security and Welfare (INSSBI) for the second quarter of 1993, supplied by the Government with its report. It notes in particular, from the statistical data contained in this report as compared to the same data for 1990, that the number of contributors, as well as the total number of persons covered by the social security system, has diminished substantially, showing a clear downward trend. The Committee recalls that this tendency was already noted in the Yearbook of Statistics of 1990 (page 35), published by the INSSBI, according to which the system of social security covered at the time only 22.5 per cent of the active population of the country. In this situation the Committee asks the Government to indicate any measures taken or under consideration to reverse this reduction in social security coverage and to extend progressively the protection provided by the social security system, and in particular by the employment injury branch, with a view to covering all workers employed in the undertakings falling within the scope of the Convention. In this respect the Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the number of employees and apprentices protected by the social security system as compared to the total number of workers employed, in particular in industrial and commercial undertakings.

[The Government is asked to report in detail in 1997.]