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

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Algeria (Ratification: 1962)

The Committee notes 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:

Article 2, paragraph 2, of the Convention. Please indicate whether national laws or regulations exempt mining or transport undertakings from the application of the Convention.

Article 3, paragraph 2. Please indicate what measures have been taken in practice to ensure that the conciliation functions given to labour inspectors (for example, under sections 2 and 13 of Act No. 90-03, sections 6-9 of Act No. 90-02, and sections 45 and 58 of Act No. 90-14) do not interfere with the effective discharge of their functions defined in Article 3, paragraph 1.

Article 5. Please provide examples of arrangements made in practice to promote cooperation and collaboration as required by this Article.

Article 8. Please indicate whether both men and women are eligible for appointment to the inspection staff and how their numbers are represented in the current composition of the staff.

Article 10. Please indicate whether the numbers of labour inspectors fixed under section 22 of Decree No. 90-209 is regarded as sufficient in the terms of this Article.

Article 11. Please describe in greater detail the measures referred to in the report to furnish labour inspectors with suitably equipped and accessible local offices and necessary transport facilities.

Article 12(1)(c)(iii). Please indicate under what provision inspectors may enforce the posting of notices required by legal provisions.

Article 13, paragraph 2(b). Please indicate whether, in practice, the wali is empowered to take measures with immediate executory force under section 11 of Act No. 90-03.

Article 16. Please indicate what measures have been taken in practice to ensure that workplaces are inspected as often and as thoroughly as is necessary to ensure the effective application of the relevant legal provisions.

Article 19. Please provide information on the practice with respect to reports made periodically by labour inspectors and local inspection offices to the central inspection authorities, and if possible supply samples.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee notes that no annual report on the activities of the inspection service has been sent. It hopes that measures will be taken to ensure that such a report with all the information required by the Convention will soon be sent to the International Labour Office.