Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Haiti (Ratification: 1952)

While acknowledging the difficult prevailing situation in the country, the Committee notes with deep concern that the Government’s report, due since 2021, has not been received. The Committee notes the observations of the Confederation of Public and Private Sector Workers (CTSP), received on 30 August 2023, and the joint observations of the Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) and the CTSP, received on 2 November 2022.

The Committee notes with concern that these observations highlight a deterioration of the labour inspection situation in the country, and indicate that the political, social and security crisis has worsened working conditions, limiting inspections, above all outside Port-au-Prince. The CTSP indicates that the Government has not yet adopted specific regulations for labour inspectors, who live in increasing precarity. It also expresses its concern regarding the increase in cases of abuse of women working at night in bars and restaurants, who are exploited, with some of them reduced to a state of sexual slavery. In this regard, the organization indicates that the Government has never monitored the working conditions of these women, as the labour inspection does not operate at night. In their joint observations, the CTH and CTSP emphasize that the recruitment of inspectors is still undertaken without a competition, in breach of the rules governing the Haitian public service, and that certain employers exercise a growing influence over the labour inspection. The Committee requests the Government to communicate its comments on these matters.

Noting the extent of the crisis engulfing the country at all levels, the Committee can only refer to its previous observations and direct request formulated in 2020 and expresses the hope that the Government will be in a position to provide its comments on all questions raised in the near future.