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Labour Administration Convention, 1978 (No. 150) - Latvia (RATIFICATION: 1993)

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The Committee notes the Government's first report for the period ending 31 July 1998. It requests the Government to provide detailed information on the application of the following provisions of the Convention:

Article 3. Please state whether national legislation specifically indicates the activities in the field of national labour policy which are regarded as being matters regulated through negotiations between employers' and workers' organizations.

Article 4. Please provide information on any arrangements made to ensure the effective operation, and the coordination, of the functions and responsibilities of the labour administration system.

Article 5. Please provide information on arrangements made at the regional and local levels and in different sectors of economic activity to ensure the consultation, cooperation and negotiation provided for in paragraph 2 of this Article.

Article 6. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the provisions of national legislation requiring the state Employment Service to draw attention to defects and abuses in conditions of work and working life and terms of employment and submit proposals on means to overcome them (paragraph 2(b)); to make its services available to employers (paragraph 2(c)); and to make technical advice available to employers and workers and their respective organizations on their request (paragraph 2(d)).

Article 7. Please indicate whether the functions of the system of labour administration include activities relating to conditions of work and working life of workers such as: tenants who do not engage outside help, sharecroppers and similar categories of agricultural workers; self-employed workers who do not engage outside help; members of cooperatives and worker-managed undertakings; and persons working under systems established by communal customs or traditions, if any; and what measures have been undertaken or envisaged in order to promote the extension of its functions to such persons. Please clarify whether labour legislation is applicable to labour relations between a cooperative and its members.

Article 9. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the manner in which the Ministry of Welfare exercises control over the activities of non-governmental organizations to which particular labour administration activities have been delegated.

Article 10. Please provide information on the specific forms of training of officials of the labour administration upon their entry into service and in the course of employment (paragraph 1); and on the material means and the financial resources allocated to the staff of the labour administration for the performance of its duties (paragraph 2).

Part V of the report form. Please provide information in respect of the results of realization of the International Labour Organization -- France Project RER/96/MO4/FRA "Strengthening of Inspection and Promotion of Practice under the General Working Conditions in the Baltic Countries" and the International Labour Organization -- the Finnish Baltic Labour Inspection Project RER/94/MO2/FIN and, in particular, measures taken that affect the organization and functioning of the labour administration.

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