Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Eswatini (Ratification: 1981)

Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information provided in the brief government report that the draft Industrial Relations Act is before the Labour Advisory Board for further consideration and action. Please provide details on any progress in this regard. The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would, in the future, provide reports on the application of this Convention in accordance with the report form approved by the Governing Body, dealing in particular with the following matters:

Article 11, paragraphs 1(b) and 2 of the Convention (granting of car loans to labour inspectors and the provision of vehicles to the labour inspectorate);

Article 13, paragraph 2(b) (the adoption of the Improvement and Prohibition Notices Regulations intended to empower inspectors to order measures with immediate executory force in the event of imminent danger to the health or safety of workers);

Articles 20 and 21 (the need to resume the supply of annual inspection reports, including the one for 1990 to which the Government had earlier referred, and containing all the information listed in Article 21, particularly as regards numbers of workplaces liable to inspection and workers employed in them (Article 21(c)).