Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Gibraltar

Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention. Failure to submit an annual report on the work of the labour inspection services. Referring to its comments since 1990 in this regard, the Committee notes with regret that the Government has never sent an annual labour inspection report to the Office containing full information on all the subjects as required in Article 21 of the Convention, namely: (a) laws and regulations relevant to the work of the inspection service; (b) staff of the labour inspection service; (c) statistics of workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein; (d) statistics of inspection visits; (e) statistics of violations and penalties imposed; (f) statistics of industrial accidents; and (g) statistics of occupational diseases. The Committee notes that the Government again provides information on the number of registered employers (which are taken to reflect the number of workplaces) and the number of workers employed therein, but does not provide updated statistics on the other subjects mentioned above. The Government repeats its indication made in its last report, that both the labour inspectorate and the health and safety inspectorate can provide statistics and other information relating to their work and that the Committee is invited to seek any specifically related information as it may require. The Committee has repeatedly emphasized and would like to recall once more the importance of publishing an annual inspection report by the central authority as part of a mechanism for the ongoing improvement of the functioning of the labour inspectorate and the health and safety inspectorate. The Committee urges the Government to ensure that the necessary measures are taken by the labour inspection authority with a view to the preparation, publication and communication to the ILO of an annual labour inspection report under Article 20 of the Convention containing information on all the subjects covered by Article 21(a)–(g). It requests the Government to describe such measures or indicate the difficulties encountered in this regard.