Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Mauritania (Ratification: 1963)

Article 3 of the Convention. In comments it has made for some years, the Committee has called for the separation of manpower offices from labour inspection offices in order that labour inspectors may perform their main duties more efficiently. The Committee now notes with satisfaction that a Ministry of Employment and Planning has been created and the manpower and labour inspection functions have been thereby separated. The Committee hopes the Government will include in future reports details of consequent changes in the organisation and working of the inspectorate.

Article 6. The Committee notes the Government's explanation that the draft statute of the labour inspectors and supervisors (to which it has been referring for a number of years and which remains to be adopted) continues to be studied with a view to making it more realistic in light of the current economic situation of the country. The Committee recalls that the draft is based on a study made by an ILO expert, taking account of the economic situation in the country as well as the provisions of the Convention and the need to ensure decent working conditions for inspectors. It hopes progress will be made towards adopting a new statute in this light, and that it will guarantee inspection staff stability of employment and independence from any change of government and improper external influences.

In a new direct request, the Committee has again referred to other questions related to Articles 10, 11, 16, 20 and 21.