Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (Ratification: 1967)

1. Articles 3, 10 and 16 of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its report according to which the administrative reorganization of the Ministry of Labour was approved by the Council of Ministers in Decree No. 2318 (Official Gazette No. 35908 of 27 February 1996). The restructuring plan was designed to change the emphasis of labour inspection duties towards guidance, consultancy and prevention, and to support them by means of the single supervisory act, in order to increase the technical capacity of their implementation; for this purpose, certain priorities were developed (making organizational and operational changes; providing employees with training and instruction; decentralizing its operations; supervision and monitoring; and planning priorities). The Committee notes the information with regard to the training of new labour, social security and industrial supervisors (STSSI) for the central area of the country, and the fact that 100 new professionals are being trained for the rest of the country.

The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the application of the restructuring plan, the training of inspectors and the results in terms of the inspections carried out.

2. Articles 20 and 21. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that the document "Report and Account" did not include information relating to Article 21, paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), nor did it contain statistics allowing the effectiveness of the inspection system to be assessed in relation to paragraphs (d) and (f) of the same Article. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government to the effect that plans have been made to include in the 1997 "Report and Account" information on labour inspection, and that computerization of the information will enable the aspects contained in Recommendation No. 81 to be more clearly monitored. The Committee hopes that the Government will forward to the Office, within the time-limits prescribed in the Convention, the annual reports on the activities of the inspection service which contain all the information required under the Convention.