Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes with regret that, according to the Government's reply to its previous comments, the draft Ministerial Order to determine the means of applying to apprentices the Legislative Decree of 22 August 1974 on the organisation of the social security scheme has still not been adopted, although the matter has been submitted to the technical bodies concerned.

The Committee points out in this connection that it has been commenting for over 15 years on the need to extend the statutory provisions respecting the compensation of industrial accidents to apprentices and that even in its report for the period 1973-75 the Government indicated that a draft Ministerial Order was being prepared. In these circumstances, the Committee is bound once again to hope that the above draft Ministerial Order will be adopted in the near future in order to give full effect to Article 2 of the Convention, which provides that the laws and regulations as to workmen's compensation shall apply to workmen, employees and apprentices. It requests the Government to indicate any progress achieved in this respect in its next report and to transmit the text of the Ministerial Order when it has been adopted.