Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1999, published 88th ILC session (2000)

The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 3, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that labour inspectors, who are authorized to perform inspection duties in all public, semi-public and private institutions, are also responsible for conciliation in collective labour disputes (compulsory conciliation) and individual disputes (optional conciliation). Referring also to its observation under the Convention and to paragraphs 99-102 of its 1985 General Survey on labour inspection, the Committee requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or planned so as to ensure that the conciliation activities of labour inspectors do not interfere with the effective discharge of their primary duties or prejudice in any way the authority and impartiality which are necessary to inspectors in their relations with employers and workers.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee notes that an annual inspection report containing information on the subjects referred to in Article 21 of the Convention has not yet been communicated to the Office. It hopes that the Government will take the desired measures in order to communicate such a report in conformity with Article 20 of the Convention. Referring also to the general observation it made in 1996 under the Convention relating to the practical guidelines for the collection, recording and communication of reliable data on occupational accidents and diseases contained in the 1996 ILO publication entitled Recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases, the Committee hopes that the Government will provide information on the progress made in this respect.