Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2012, published 102nd ILC session (2013)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - China - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Ratification: 1997)

With reference to its observation, the Committee would also like to raise the following point.

Articles 10, 20 and 21 of the Convention. Availability of statistics of industrial and commercial workplaces liable to labour inspection and of the number of workers employed therein. The Committee notes from the Government’s report that a comprehensive database of workplaces liable to labour inspection has been maintained, used by labour inspectors in the context of a strategy targeting workplaces suspected of having breached the provisions of labour legislation as well as establishments in industries known for a high incidence of offences. The database contains information including the trade, number of workers and offence records of the establishments. Furthermore, according to the Government, in 2010, the Labour Department launched a new Labour Inspection Management Information System facilitating labour inspectors’ access to information available in the workplace database in order to facilitate the formulation of enforcement actions. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide statistical information on the nature, size and situation of the workplaces liable to inspection, as well as on the number and classes of workers employed in such workplaces as provided for in Article 10(a)(i) and (ii) of the Convention. Furthermore, the Committee would be grateful it the Government would describe the impact of the Labour Inspection Management Information System on the formulation of enforcement actions by the labour inspection system.