Observation (CEACR) - adopted 1997, published 86th ILC session (1998)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Central African Republic (Ratification: 1964)

Articles 10, 11 and 16 of the Convention. In its previous comments, the Committee noted that labour inspection duties were being performed in difficult material conditions and that inspectors had neither suitable offices nor transport facilities available to them. The Committee notes the information communicated by the Government in its report stating that the number of inspectors was insufficient to discharge effectively the duties entrusted to them. The Committee also notes the precarious nature of the material conditions for carrying out inspection duties (fire and the failure to rebuild the Regional Labour Inspectorate in Bangui; lack of vehicles available to the Labour Directorate General giving rise to a lack of efficiency in regional inspections; shortage of supplies and equipment; failure to reimburse travelling expenses to inspectors).

The Committee hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures so that labour inspection duties can be performed by making available the necessary resources and so that workplaces can be inspected as often and as thoroughly as is required. The Committee is addressing a request directly to the Government concerning the application of Articles 3, paragraph 2, 20 and 21 of the Convention.