Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2008, published 98th ILC session (2009)

Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention, 1925 (No. 19) - Bangladesh (Ratification: 1972)

The Committee notes that, according to the Government’s report, the question of the compensation of employment accidents is now governed by the Labour Act adopted in 2006. In substance, this text reproduces the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923, as amended, and guarantees equality of treatment in respect of employment accidents between foreign nationals and nationals of Bangladesh. The Committee further observes the Government’s indication that the payment of compensation for employment accidents to foreign workers is sometimes made through special arrangements concluded between the local employer and the agent of the foreign workers, in accordance with the principles set out by the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide fuller information in its next report on the special arrangements to which it refers with an indication of the manner in which the latter ensure to the nationals of States parties to this Convention the same treatment as nationals of Bangladesh in respect of compensation for employment accidents, in accordance with Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention. The Committee also requests the Government to indicate the manner in which the issue of the export of employment injury compensation is regulated both with regard to nationals of Bangladesh and foreign nationals and their dependants. Finally, it invites the Government to provide statistical data on the number of foreign workers employed in the country, their nationality and any injuries that they suffer during the period covered by the next report.