Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Cabo Verde (Ratification: 1987)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It also notes the adoption in 2007 of the new Labour Code and hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee takes this opportunity to recall that, under the terms of this provision of the Convention, when foreign workers are victims of occupational accidents while employed temporarily or intermittently on the territory of Cape Verde on behalf of an undertaking situated abroad, it is not authorized to exclude these workers from the scope of application of Cape Verdean law except in the case of the prior conclusion between the States concerned of special agreements providing for the application of the legislation of the State of origin.

Part V of the report form. The Committee notes that the Government still does not have any statistical data concerning occupational accidents. It trusts that the Government will be in a position to transmit such information with its next report indicating, as far as possible, the number and nationality of foreign workers employed in the country, the number of those involved in occupational accidents, in particular in the construction sector where, according to the Cape Verde Confederation of Free Trade Unions (CCSL), many occupational accidents occur.