Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2020, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention, 1925 (No. 18) - Armenia (Ratification: 2005)

Application of the Convention in practice. The Committee notes the statistical information provided by the Government in response to its previous comments requesting information on the number of workers that were affected by the three types of occupational diseases (poisoning by lead, poisoning by mercury and anthrax infection) covered by the Convention. The Committee notes in particular the information provided on the total number of persons in receipt of compensation for work injury and occupational diseases, and on the total cost of the compensation paid, on a yearly basis, as well as on the number of persons suffering from permanent incapacity caused by an occupational disease and on the types of occupational diseases which have caused such incapacity. The Committee takes due note of this information and requests the Government to continue giving an appreciation of the manner in which the Convention is applied in Armenia by providing, for instance, extracts from the reports of the inspection services, information concerning the processes carried on at national level which give rise to occupational diseases, and notably those mentioned in the Schedule to the Convention, with an indication of the extent to which they are carried on, the number of workers employed in the industries and processes concerned, and the number of cases of such diseases which have been reported as well as the sums paid by way of compensation as benefits in cash and in kind, respectively.

The Committee has been informed that, based on the recommendations of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM Tripartite Working Group), the Governing Body has decided that member States for which the Convention is in force should be encouraged to ratify the more recent Employment Injury Benefits Convention, 1964 [Schedule I amended in 1980] (No. 121), or the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), and accept its Part VI (see GB.328/LILS/2/1). Conventions Nos 121 and 102 reflect the more modern approach to employment injury benefits. The Committee therefore encourages the Government to follow up the Governing Body’s decision at its 328th Session (October–November 2016) approving the recommendations of the SRM Tripartite Working Group and to consider ratifying Convention No. 121 or Convention No. 102 (Part VI) as the most up-to-date instruments in this subject area.