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

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

Articles 5(a), 18 and 21(e) of the Convention. Effective cooperation between the labour inspection services and the judicial system. Effective application of appropriate penalties. The Committee once again notes that the Government is not aware of court decisions. In its general observation of 2007, the Committee emphasized that cooperation between the labour inspection services and the justice system is necessary to ensure the enforcement of legal provisions relating to conditions of work and the protection of workers in cases where the other means of action of the labour inspectorate, such as advice, notifications and warnings, have not been effective. The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate the measures adopted or envisaged to facilitate effective cooperation between the inspection services and the justice system, and in particular the transmission by the common courts to the labour inspection services of information on the judicial action taken as a result of reports of violations. The Government is also requested to provide information on the content of the decisions made by such courts.

Article 5(b) of the Convention and Part II of Recommendation No. 81. Collaboration with employers’ and workers’ organizations, particularly in the field of occupational safety and health. The Committee notes that the requested information has not been received. It would be grateful if the Government would reply to the questions raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 5(b) of the Convention and Part II of Recommendation No. 81. Collaboration with employers’ and workers’ organizations, particularly in the field of occupational safety and health. While noting from the report on the work of the inspectorate that collaboration between the social partners and the labour inspectorate took the form of over 6,000 consultations on various subjects in the course of 2007, the Committee nonetheless observes that the number of fatal industrial accidents was high (52 in the four provinces covered by the statistics). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would describe the procedures for holding these consultations together with information on the measures taken or envisaged to encourage collaboration between the inspection services and employers’ and workers’ organizations with a view to improving the conditions for workers’ safety and health, as advocated in Part II of Recommendation No. 81 accompanying the Convention.