Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Niger (Ratification: 1979)

Article 5 of the Convention. Further to its previous comments regarding the hostility met with by labour inspectors from employers, including those in the public sector, the Committee notes the information that legislation and regulations implementing the Convention are being revised by a committee and that these texts will be communicated when completed. Please provide full particulars of such revision and indicate other measures taken or contemplated to ensure further collaboration from employers as regards labour inspection.

Articles 10 and 16. The Committee notes the information that the Government recruits each year about ten new inspectors among graduates of specialized schools or among officers of the Ministry who have undergone training or retraining. Please indicate if such recruitment has resulted in a net increase of the strength of the labour inspectorate and in more frequent inspection visits taking into account the increased number of work accidents reported previously. Please provide further information on developments in this regard with future reports.

Article 11. The Committee notes that the inadequacies reported earlier in the facilities available to inspectors especially as regards transport continue because of the economic difficulties faced by the country. Please provide indications on developments in this regard and on the measures that are proposed pending improvements in the general economic conditions.

Article 13, paragraph 2. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes that its earlier suggestion for the issuance of a decree under section 131 of the Labour Code concerning inspectors' powers to make orders with immediate executory force could be put to the committee currently engaged in revising the Labour Code. In the meanwhile, please provide with future reports information on the practical application of this provision.

Article 20. The Committee notes that annual reports on the work of the inspection services for the periods after 1988 have not yet reached the Office. It hopes that future reports will be sent regularly and within the time-limits established by the Convention.