Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Guinea-Bissau (Ratification: 1977)

The Committee notes with regret 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:

Articles 10, 11 and 16 of the Convention. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government's report and the report on inspection activities for 1992. It notes in particular that the General Labour Inspectorate is composed of 14 officials, including one chief inspector and two labour inspectors, and that the premises of the inspection services are very small and do not provide acceptable conditions for the work of the staff of the inspectorate or for receiving members of the public. Furthermore, for reasons of an economic nature related to the lack of spare parts, only one car is available to the inspectors. The Committee also notes that 549 inspection visits were undertaken in 1992 and that the visits carried out by the occupational health and safety department were principally designed to inform, educate and guide workers and employers to assist them understand and give effect to the relevant technical standards. It hopes that measures to strengthen the resources of the labour inspectorate, including the recruitment of more inspectors, will be taken in order to ensure that workplaces are inspected as often and as thoroughly as is necessary to ensure the effective application of the relevant legal provisions.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee notes that the report on the activities of the inspection services provided by the Government refers to 1992 and contains information on the staff of the labour inspection service (paragraph (b)), the number of inspection visits (paragraph (d)), and the number of violations committed and the amount of the fines imposed (paragraph (e)). The Committee hopes that it will be possible to take measures in the near future to transmit to the ILO the annual inspection reports, containing all the data referred to in Article 21, within the time-limits set in Article 20.

The Committee hopes that the Government will make every effort to take the necessary action in the very near future.