Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2008, publiée 98ème session CIT (2009)

The Committee notes that, with a view to strengthening the capacities of the social security bodies, in particular those of the Occupational Accidents, Sickness and Maternity Insurance Office (OFATMA), the Ministry of Social Affairs has organized a discussion forum gathering together the directors of the social security bodies. The deliberations of this forum have highlighted the weaknesses of the social security institutions and identified different ways to enable them to fulfil their mission properly. The country does not currently have a sickness insurance system which allows the needs of workers in industry and the agricultural sector to be guaranteed, as the Act promulgated to give effect to the Convention is not yet in force. The matter is, however, in the process of being examined, in collaboration with the Office, with a view to assessing the feasibility of establishing a national social security system in the future covering the entire population, both the formal and informal sectors and the unemployed. The Committee welcomes the Government’s efforts and invites it to keep it informed of the establishment and implementation of a sickness insurance branch within the social security system and any difficulties that might be encountered in practice.