Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Portugal (Ratification: 1962)

Articles 9 and 10 of the Convention. Cooperation between technical experts and specialists and inspectorate staff. The Government indicates that with the renewal of the inspectorate staff, 150 trainees joined the service on 11 May 2009, their initial training having begun that year. The total number of inspectors therefore stood at 253 at the end of 2009. In the course of 2010, 148 new inspectors took up duty and the Authority for Conditions of Work (ACT) had 384 inspectors at the end of 2010. The Committee asks the Government to continue to provide information on the number of inspectors currently in service (indicating their geographical distribution), the number of trainee inspectors, and the number of technical experts and specialists cooperating with the inspection services with particulars of their specializations and, if possible, their geographical distribution.

Articles 20 and 21. Annual report on the work of the inspection services. The Committee notes the information on the labour inspectorate of the autonomous region of Madeira, including particulars of the number of inspection visits, the number of inspectors involved in them, the number of infringements reported, the amount of the fines imposed and the number of inquiries into fatal accidents. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would take the necessary steps to ensure that information on the work of the inspection services in the autonomous regions of the Azores and Madeira is reflected in a separate part of the general labour inspection annual report, containing information on all the items listed in Article 21. It requests the Government to ensure that this report is published and regularly communicated to the ILO within the period prescribed in Article 20.