R022 - Workmen's Compensation (Minimum Scale) Recommendation, 1925 (No. 22)

• Subject Matter: Seguridad social,Social security,Sécurité sociale
• Court: International Labour Organization

Preamble

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Seventh Session on 19 May 1925, and

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to the minimum scale of workmen's compensation, which is included in the first item of the agenda of the Session, and

Having determined that these proposals should take the form of a Recommendation,

adopts this tenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred twenty-five, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Workmen's Compensation (Minimum Scale) Recommendation, 1925, to be submitted to the Members of the International Labour Organisation for consideration with a view to effect being given to it by national legislation or otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation:

The General Conference recommends that each Member of the International Labour Organisation should take the following principles and rules into consideration:

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Where incapacity for work results from the injury, the national laws or regulations should provide for the payment of compensation at rates not lower than those hereinafter indicated:

• (1) In the case of permanent total incapacity, a periodical payment equivalent to two-thirds of the workman's annual earnings;
• (2) In case of permanent partial incapacity, a proportion of the periodical payment due in the event of permanent total incapacity calculated in reference to the reduction of earning power caused by the injury;
• (3) In case of temporary total incapacity, a daily or weekly payment equivalent to two-thirds of the workman's basic earnings as calculated for purposes of compensation;
• (4) In case of temporary partial incapacity, a proportion of the daily or weekly payment payable in the case of temporary total incapacity calculated in reference to the reduction of earning power caused by the injury.

Where compensation is paid in a lump sum, the sum should not be less than the capitalised value of the periodical payment which would be...