Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 [Schedule I amended in 1980] (No. 121) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 1967)

In response to the Committee’s previous observation, the Government indicates that the Social Security Reform Commission has reviewed the current schedule of occupational diseases and that the revised draft text has been transmitted to the competent authorities for approval following consideration by the National Labour Council. The Committee hopes that the revised schedule of occupational diseases will be adopted in the near future and will include diseases caused by the toxic halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series, as well as those caused by benzene or its toxic homologues (Article 8 of the Convention).

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.