Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Serbia (Ratification: 2000)

Part IV (Unemployment benefit) and Part VIII (Maternity benefit) of the Convention. In view of the fact that the Government’s report does not contain the information requested by the report form with regard to Parts IV and VIII, the Committee hopes that the Government will send in the near future all the elements required by the report form under these Parts.

Article 65. Level of old-age benefit and survivors’ benefit. The Committee notes that the calculations sent by the Government in its report based on Article 65 of the Convention show that, with regard to old-age benefit, the national legislation ensures a replacement level higher than that established by the Convention, namely 57.24 per cent of the reference wage for the standard beneficiary. As regards survivors’ benefit, the report indicates that the replacement level that would apply to a widow with two children would be 51.52 per cent of the wages of a breadwinner who had made contributions over a period of 30 years. The Committee recalls that the minimum replacement level established by Articles 63(1)(a) and 65 of the Convention represents 40 per cent of the reference wage, this percentage having to be attained in the case of 15 years of contributions by the breadwinner. The Committee therefore requests the Government to recalculate the replacement level ensured to a widow with two children in accordance with the requirements of the report form (the Government is requested to refer to the different points contained within Article 65, Titles I, IV and V). The Government may take into account all family allowances paid to the standard beneficiary and add these to the reference wage and to the amount of survivors’ benefit.

Article 65 or 66 and Parts III, IV and VIII (Level of sickness benefit, unemployment benefit and maternity benefit). In the absence of calculations concerning the level of benefits covered by Parts III, IV and VIII of the Convention, the Committee requests the Government to include with its next report the specific information required by the report form (details of employment injury benefit that have to be communicated in the context of Convention No. 121).