Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Norway (Ratification: 1949)

Articles 10 and 16 of the Convention. Temporary reduction in labour inspection activities. The Committee notes that the Government has not provided a report and that it has not added any comments to those made in its report received by the ILO on 5 November 2007, to which it attached the observations made by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). The organization expressed concerns with regard to the impact of the transfer of the central labour inspectorate from Oslo to Trondheim on inspection activities, though it was confident that the situation would be restored to normal in the end. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information in its next report on the geographical distribution of labour inspection staff and statistics showing developments relating to inspection activities during the period covered by the next report.

Article 14. Notification of the labour inspectorate of industrial accidents and cases of occupational disease. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information on the measures taken to improve the system of reporting cases of occupational disease, as well as their results.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2010.]