Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ratification: 1968)

With reference to its observation, the Committee recalls the concern it expressed in its previous comments about the lack of human and material resources in the labour inspection services. In its last report, the Government again refers to the difficulties - budgetary and otherwise - encountered in the application of Article 7(3) (vocational training of inspection staff); Article 10 (number of labour inspectors); Article 11 (suitably equipped offices and availability of transport); and Article 16 (frequency of inspection visits) of the Convention, and the efforts made to overcome them.

The Committee hopes that the next report will contain all the information required on the above Articles of the Convention. It trusts once again that the Government will take advantage of all the various possibilities for technical co-operation available in this area at the International Labour Office.