Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Finland (Ratification: 1980)

Articles 1 and 4 of the Convention. Effective operation of a system of labour administration. The Committee notes the information in the Government’s report concerning the Ministry of Employment and the Economy. Pursuant to Government Decree No. 1570/2011, this Ministry is responsible for, among other things, labour and industrial policy. The Government indicates that the Ministry has six departments, including the Labour and Trade Department, which deals with, among other subjects, labour law, better regulation and internal market policy, and the Employment and Entrepreneurship Department, which deals with, among other subjects, employment and enterprise services, quality of working life and structural unemployment. With reference to its comments under the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) adopted in 2013, the Committee notes that the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health also undertakes functions related to labour administration, particularly through the Ministry’s Department for Occupational Safety and Health. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on how coordination is ensured between the functions and responsibilities of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy (particularly the Departments of Labour and Trade Department and Employment and Entrepreneurship) and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health (particularly the Department for Occupational Safety and Health), so as to guarantee the effective operation of the labour administration system.

Article 9. Delegation of labour administration activities to regional or local agencies. The Committee refers to its comments under Convention No. 81 of 2013, where it noted that within the framework of the implementation of the regional state administrative reform, occupational safety and health (OSH) services were in the process of being delegated to the regional state administrations. It notes, in this regard, the information on the website for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health that the Department for Occupational Safety and Health guides the regional state administrative agencies’ divisions of OSH and prepares and develops OSH legislation and policy. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the delegation of some labour administration functions to regional state administration agencies, as well as the measures taken to ensure effective coordination between these agencies and the central labour administration system.