Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2004, published 93rd ILC session (2005)

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

The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It notes the comments on the application of the Convention communicated to the ILO by the Confederation of Trade Unions of Congo (CSC) by a letter of 31 May 2004, which were forwarded by the ILO to the Government on 16 July 2004, supported by a statement by the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) of 28 July, forwarded to the Government on 16 August 2004.

According to the CSC: (i) the Government has not sent any report to workers’ organizations; (ii) in exchange for financial inducements to labour inspectors, employers are allowed to dismiss workers on the occasion of both individual and collective disputes; and (iii) a number of labour inspectors divide their working day between the role of heads of personnel in an enterprise in the morning and labour inspectors in the afternoon.

The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide any comments that it considers useful on the points indicated above in relation to the provisions of article 23, paragraph 2, of the Constitution of the ILO and Articles 6 and 15(a) of the Convention. The comments of the CSC and the WCL will be examined together with any clarifications that the Government wishes to make at the next appropriate session of the Committee.

The Committee is once again addressing directly to the Government its request of 2002 on certain matters.