Preparing for the General Survey on Employment Injury Protection

Employment Injury Protection: A global webinar for preparing reports and comments for the General Survey

Co-organized by the International Labour Standards Department (NORMES) and the International Training Centre of the ILO (ITCILO)

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Recording of the global webinar

Under article 19 of the ILO Constitution, Members shall report to the Director-General of the International Labour Office, at appropriate intervals as requested by the Governing Body on the position of their law and practice in regard to the matters dealt with in unratified Conventions and in Recommendations. On this basis, the Governing Body selects each year the Conventions and Recommendations on which member States are requested to supply reports. These reports, as well as those submitted under articles 22 and 35 of the ILO Constitution by the States parties to the Conventions concerned and the comments received by employers’ and workers’ organizations, allow the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) to establish General Surveys on the effect given, in law and in practice, to the instruments considered.

At its 346th Session in October-November 2022, the Governing Body decided that the General Survey to be prepared by the CEACR in 2024, and to be discussed by the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS) in 2025 will cover the six following instruments: the Employment Injury Benefits Convention (No. 121) and Recommendation (No. 121), 1964; the Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) (Part VI); the Workmen’s Compensation (Agriculture) Convention, 1921 (No. 12); and the Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention (No. 19) and Recommendation (No. 25), 1925.

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Government officials responsible for matters relating to international labour standards (ILS), including the fulfilment of the reporting obligations laid down by the ILO Constitution.
• Representatives of employers’ and workers’ organizations responsible for ILO matters, in particular members of national tripartite committees.
• ILO officials, including field specialists and project officers.

OBJECTIVES OF THE WEBINAR

To be better equipped to:

prepare the report under article 19 of the ILO Constitution on unratified Conventions and Recommendations for the General Survey on employment injury protection (deadline for governments: 29 February 2024);
prepare related comments (deadline for employers’ and workers’ organizations: 30 June 2024); and
participate in related consultations and discussions.