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

Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Belgium (Ratification: 2011)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report and welcomes the detailed information it contains on the application of the Convention.

The Committee notes the information on the tasks performed by several divisions of the labour inspectorate in tackling illegal work and social fraud, and refers in this connection to its comments under the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), in so far as they apply also to the present Convention.

Article 2 of the Convention. Laws or regulations entrusting certain activities of labour administration to employers’ and workers’ organizations. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, various roles have been assigned to the employers’ and workers’ organizations by a number of laws such as those governing the economy, bodies for the consultation and participation of workers and social elections, and by various regulations governing commissions, advisory councils or other committees. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would specify the laws and regulations concerned, and requests it to send copies of the provisions that entrust certain labour administration activities to employers’ and workers’ organizations.

Article 4. Coordination of the functions and responsibilities assigned to the labour administration system. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate how it ensures the coordination of functions in the national system of labour administration.

Article 9. Checking the activities of parastatal, regional and local agencies. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, government commissioners or representatives ascertain whether parastatal agencies responsible for certain labour administration activities are operating in accordance with national and regional legislation. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate how the government commissioners or representatives ensure that parastatal agencies operate in accordance with the law and adhere to the objectives assigned to them.

Article 10. Pay conditions and training of labour administration staff. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, the staff of the labour administration system are not governed by a special statute: they either come under the ordinary regulations governing state agents and are recruited by competition, or are appointed under ordinary work contracts following assessment by a panel; in either case they have the same conditions of work, but not as yet the same conditions of pay. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide information on the differences in conditions of pay between the two categories of staff mentioned above, and on the training that labour administration staff receive on taking up their duties and in the course of their employment.