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Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985 (No. 161) - Luxembourg (RATIFICATION: 2008)

Article 8 of the Convention. Participation of the social partners in the implementation of organizational measures relating to occupational health services. Further to its previous comment in which it noted the organization of three major types of occupational health services in the private sector, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the multi-sectoral occupational health service is the only service to have a tripartite structure in which employers, workers and their representatives cooperate. It also notes that the occupational health audit in Luxembourg, which was conducted at the request of the Minister of Health and Social Security and published in September 2012 on the Ministry of Health’s website, reports very different forms of management between the various occupational health services that fail to ensure, in all cases, the establishment and maintenance of social dialogue. The Committee recalls that, in accordance with Article 8 of the Convention, the employer, the workers and their representatives, where they exist, shall cooperate and participate in the implementation of the organizational and other measures relating to occupational health services on an equitable basis. The Committee therefore requests the Government to indicate the measures taken or envisaged to guarantee, in law and practice, the participation, on an equitable basis, of employers, workers and their representatives in the implementation of organizational measures relating to inter-enterprise and enterprise specific occupational health services.