Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2015, published 105th ILC session (2016)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - El Salvador (Ratification: 1995)

The Committee notes the information provided by the Government on cooperation between the agricultural inspection services and duly qualified technical experts (Article 11 of the Convention) and on means of transport for labour inspectors to perform their duties (Article 15).

Article 9(3). Adequate training for labour inspectors in agriculture to perform their duties. In its previous comments, the Committee requested the Government to indicate the measures taken to give labour inspectors in agriculture adequate training for the performance of their duties, adapted to the different classes of workers, the type of work carried out and the specific risks to which the workers in agriculture and their families are exposed. The Committee notes that in its report the Government indicates that the Agricultural Inspection Department (in which there are five inspectors), which has nationwide competence, provides labour inspectors with ongoing training in these areas through their first-level supervisors and coordinators. The Government also refers to various training activities organized between 2012 and 2015, among which the Committee notes in particular: (i) training for all the personnel on the General Act on Risk Prevention and on occupational safety and health inspection, including psychosocial risks; and (ii) the occupational risk management programme as a tool for the prevention of psychosocial risks. The Government further indicates that between September and October 2015, cooperation from the Spanish International Cooperation for Development Agency (AECID) would be launched, which would enable the strengthening of the capacity of the staff of the Labour Inspection General Directorate. The Committee requests the Government to specify the measures taken to ensure that labour inspectors in agriculture are given specific and appropriate training in the course of their employment for the performance of their duties of supervision and provision of information and technical advice to employers and workers and their families.

Articles 26 and 27. Annual inspection report. The Committee notes the information on the inspections and re-inspections conducted between 2012 and June 2015 in the agricultural sector, on the number of workers they covered, the number of inspectors and their geographical distribution. The Committee trusts that the Government will take steps to ensure that the central inspection authority publishes, either as a separate report or as part of its general annual report, an annual report on the work of the inspection services that contains the information required by Article 27(a)–(g) of the Convention, and that the report is sent to the ILO within the time limits prescribed by Article 26.