Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - Guyana (Ratification: 1971)

The Committee also refers the Government to its comments under the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81), in so far as they are concerned with the application of the present Convention.

Articles 6, 26 and 27 of the Convention. Labour inspection activities in the agricultural sector and content of the annual report on the work of the labour inspectorate. The Committee notes from the information provided in the annual report for 2012 concerning the activities of the Labour and Occupational Safety and Health Department (LOSHD) of the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security that, despite the high number of industrial accidents in sugar plantations in 2012 (423 of 738 accidents occurred in this sector), the labour inspectorate only performed a single inspection for the whole sector in 2012.

Furthermore, the Committee notes that the general annual labour inspection report provided by the Government only contains succinct information on the activities of the labour inspection services in agriculture (that is the number of inspection visits in sugar plantations and agriculture, and the number of occupational accidents in sugar plantations). It is therefore, once again, bound to observe that the statistical information provided by the Government is insufficient with regard to the level of information required in Article 27(a)–(g) and does not allow the Committee to assess the application of the Convention in practice. Referring to its general observations of 2009 and 2010, the Committee, once again, requests that the Government take the necessary measures, if need be with technical assistance from the Office, to enable the central labour inspection authority to include all the information required by Article 27 (a)–(g) in an annual report on the work of the inspection services in agriculture, either as a separate report or as part of its general annual report.