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

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Solomon Islands (Ratification: 1985)

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:

The Committee notes the Government’s short report containing partial replies to the requests made by the Committee in 2000 and reiterated in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 on the application of Articles 10, 11, 16, 20 and 21 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that it also specifically requested a copy of Order No. LN 137/91 and the regulations concerning cover of wages (illness and accident cover) mentioned in a report on the application of the Convention received at the ILO in 1992 and requests the Government to indicate whether these texts are still in force and, if so, to supply copies.

While noting with interest the table showing the increase in the budget of the labour inspectorate and of its human resources, the Committee observes that the annual inspection reports stated to be annexed to the Government’s report have not been received at the ILO making it impossible to appreciate to what extent effect is given to each provision of the Convention. The Government is requested to supply these annual reports as well as any report that has been prepared subsequently and in any event to provide all the information required by Parts I to V of the report form of the Convention.