Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2016, publiée 106ème session CIT (2017)

Convention (n° 119) sur la protection des machines, 1963 - Azerbaïdjan (Ratification: 1992)

Article 13 of the Convention. Application of the obligations of employers and workers to self-employed workers. With reference to the comments it has been making for many years, the Committee notes that the Government once again does not provide information in its report on the effect given to this Article of the Convention. The Committee therefore once again requests the Government to indicate if the provisions of Part III of the Convention relating to the obligations of employers and workers apply to self-employed workers and, if such is the case, the extent of such application.

Application in practice. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government according to which, in the course of the 30,153 inspections carried out in enterprises between 2012 and 2015 by the officials of the State Labour Inspectorate Service, 13,367 complaints and applications from citizens were considered; 52,788 breaches were identified and 5,666 recommendations were issued for their elimination; and fines totalling 7,147,340 Azerbaijani Manat (AZN) (approximately US$4,359,877) were levied on employers. The Government also indicates that 568 industrial accidents occurred during this period, of which 53 involved several people, 180 were fatal and 385 resulted in various degrees of injury to workers. The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, including extracts from labour inspection reports, statistics on the number of workers covered by the legislation, the number and nature of the contraventions reported, and the number, nature and cause of occupational accidents reported, as well as information on the measures taken to reduce the number of these accidents.