Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1990, published 77th ILC session (1990)

The Committee notes from the Government's report that no progress has yet been made in ensuring the application of the provisions of Articles 3, paragraph 1(c); 5(b); 12, paragraph 1(a) and (b); and 15(a), of the Convention which were the subject of its previous comments. It recalls that the matters raised concern: conferring on the inspection services the task of informing the competent authorities of the areas where the legislation is inadequate so that they may adopt new measures to protect the workers (Article 3, paragraph 1(c)); ensuring collaboration between officials of the labour inspectorate and employers and workers or their organisations (Article 5(b)); empowering labour inspectors to enter "at any hour of the day or night" workplaces liable to inspection, and "by day", any premises which they may have reasonable cause to believe to be liable to inspection, regardless of working hours (Article 12, paragraph 1(a) and (b)); prohibiting labour inspectors from having any direct or indirect interest in the undertakings under their supervision (Article 15(a)).

The Committee hopes that appropriate measures to give effect to the above provisions of the Convention will be taken shortly.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee notes that the annual inspection report has not been received by the ILO. It trusts that the Government will take the necessary steps to ensure that, in future, annual reports on the work of the inspection services containing information and statistics on all the subjects listed in Article 21 will be published and transmitted to the International Labour Office within the time-limits laid down in Article 20.