Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Gibraltar

Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention. Failure to submit an annual report on the work of the labour inspection services. In its last comment, the Committee noted with regret that the Government had never sent an annual labour inspection report to the Office containing full information on all the subjects as required under Article 21 of the Convention. The Committee notes that, yet again, no annual report on the work of the labour inspection services has been received this year, nor have any relevant statistics been provided which, according to the Government’s indications in its previous comments, could be provided by the labour inspectorate and the health and safety inspectorate. Neither has the Government provided any information, as requested, on the difficulties encountered in preparing, publishing and communicating an annual labour inspection report under Article 20 of the Convention. The Committee recalls that the annual labour inspection report offers an indispensable basis for the national authorities, the social partners and the ILO supervisory bodies to evaluate the results in practice of the activities of the labour inspection services and contribute to their improvement, particularly for the determination of the means necessary to improve their effectiveness. The Committee once again urges the Government to ensure that the necessary measures are taken by the labour inspection authority to prepare, publish and communicate to the ILO an annual labour inspection report under Article 20 of the Convention containing information on all the subjects covered by Article 21(a)–(g), and to describe such measures or any difficulties encountered in this regard.

It requests the Government in any event to provide with its next report statistical information that is as detailed as possible on the number of labour inspectors and industrial and commercial places liable to inspection, as well as on the activities of the labour inspection services (number of inspections, infringements detected and the legal provisions to which they relate, penalties applied, number of occupational accidents and diseases reported, etc.).