Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2023, published 112nd ILC session (2024)

Workmen's Compensation (Occupational Diseases) Convention (Revised), 1934 (No. 42) - French Polynesia

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Article 2 of the Convention. Supplementary procedure for the recognition of occupational diseases. The Committee notes the Government’s indication in its report that dialogue will be organized with the social partners and the Social Welfare Fund on the development of a supplementary system for the recognition of occupational diseases. The Committee requests the Government to continue providing information on any new developments with regard to the possibility of establishing a supplementary system for the recognition of occupational diseases.

The Committee has been informed that, on the basis of the recommendations of the Tripartite Working Group of the Standards Review Mechanism (the SRM Tripartite Working Group), the Governing Body has decided that Member States that are currently bound by Convention No. 42 should be encouraged to ratify the most recent instruments, namely the Employment Injury Benefits Convention [Schedule I amended in 1980], 1964 (No. 121), or the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102), and accept the obligations in its Part VI (see GB.328/LILS/2/1). Conventions Nos 121 and 102 (Part VI) adopt a more modern approach to employment injury benefit. The Committee therefore encourages the Government to give effect to the decision adopted by the Governing Body at its 328th Session (October-November 2016) approving the recommendations of the SRM Tripartite Working Group and to consider the ratification of Conventions Nos 121 and 102 (Part VI), which are the most up-to-date instruments in this field.