Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Seafarers' Pensions Convention, 1946 (No. 71) - Panama (Ratification: 1971)

The Committee notes the observations of the National Confederation of United Independent Unions (CONUSI), received on 30 August 2024. The Committee requests the Government to provide its comments in this respect.

The Committee notes with regret that the Government indicates in its report that it has not received the information requested from the Social Insurance Fund, despite the time that has elapsed.

Article 3(1) of the Convention. Pension scheme for seafarers.The Committee expects that the Government will provide information as soon as possible on the average wages of seafarers affiliated to the system and also the average amounts of pensions paid by the system to insured persons who have made a total of 240 monthly contributions (20 years).

Article 3(2). Contribution of insured persons to the cost of pensions. The Committee recalls that, under Article 3(2) of the Convention, seafarers collectively shall not contribute more than half the cost of the pensions payable under the scheme. In this regard, the Committee expects that the Government will provide information as soon as possible on what proportion of the financing of pensions for the years covered by the report is constituted by the contributions paid by insured persons.