Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - Spain (Ratification: 1971)

With reference also to its observation, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information on the following points.

The Committee notes that the increase in the staff of the labour inspectorate between 1997 and 1998 particularly concerned higher level labour and social security inspectors and it would be grateful if the Government would provide information listing the proportion of women in the overall inspection staff and by categories. With reference to Article 10 of the Convention, under the terms of which special duties may be assigned to women inspectors, the Committee notes that this provision is not applied. It would be grateful if the Government would indicate whether it is envisaged, within the framework of the new Act on the organization of the labour inspectorate, to assign women inspectors to advisory or enforcement functions concerning, in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 2, the application of legal provisions relating to conditions of life of agricultural workers and their families.

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in reply to its general observation of 1996 respecting the notification and recording of employment accidents and cases of occupational diseases. It notes that the figures provided concerning employment accidents which occurred during the years 1998 and 1999 are disaggregated by the gravity of the resulting injury, without indicating the causes, however, statistics of cases of occupational diseases in the agricultural sector are not provided either in the Government’s report, or in the annual inspection report for 1998, as required by Article 27(g). The Committee emphasizes that, by virtue of  Article 27(f) and (g), statistics of occupational accidents and diseases must also reflect their causes, and it requests the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that statistics which are as complete as possible on these points are published regularly in annual inspection reports.