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

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Austria (Ratification: 1949)

The Committee has taken note of the comments made by the Austrian Chamber of Workers concerning the application of Articles 10 (insufficient number of labour inspectors); 11, paragraph 1(b) (limited transport facilities for inspection tours in rural areas); 17 and 18 (defects of the system of enforcing penalties for violations of legal provisions); and 20 (non-observance of the time-limit for the publication of the annual inspection report) of the Convention. It requests the Government to provide its observations on the various aspects of the application of the Convention raised in the above-mentioned comments.