Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2007, published 97th ILC session (2008)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Ratification: 1993)

Also referring to its observation, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply further information on the application of the Convention in law and practice with regard to the following points:

–      initial training of labour inspectors for the performance of their duties (Article 7, paragraph 3, of the Convention);

–      the criteria for determining the numbers of inspection staff in the two entities (Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Brcko District (Article 10), stating the number of inspection staff and their distribution by geographical area and by sex (Article 8);

–      transport facilities available to labour inspectors (Article 11, paragraph 1(b));

–      prohibition on labour inspectors from having any direct or indirect interest in the undertakings under their supervision (Article 15(a)).

The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would keep the Office informed on the progress of the legislative process for the adoption of the draft act on labour inspection of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it indicated, in 2006, had been submitted to Parliament.