The role of international conventions in determining the applicable law to social security

Abstract

The risks that the worker during his work, such as accidents, injuries, disability, illness, death and others, have led the international community to assume its collective responsibility in providing the necessary protection for him and securing him from these risks, so collective and bilateral international agreements have been concluded, so that these risks become insured and secured. As a result of these accidents, the worker receives different benefits according to the injury or disability that he receives during his work.

The movement of workers from their countries to other countries for the purpose of work, leads to a conflict of laws applicable on those risks, and then the search for social insurance laws that cover them, and if the internal legislation differs in the solutions to the conflict, international conventions will play a major role in removing the difficulties and problems that may appear in this regard, as it sets unified rules of conflict between the contracting states, referring to determining the applicable social insurance law.