Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2002, published 91st ILC session (2003)

Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129) - Burkina Faso (Ratification: 1974)

The Committee notes that the Government’s report contains no reply to previous comments. It must therefore repeat its previous observation, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report for the period ending in May 2000, in which the latter indicates that agricultural undertakings are subject to labour inspection supervision on the same basis as industrial or commercial enterprises and that no particular problems are encountered in this regard. The Committee notes, however, that the Government has not supplied the information requested in previous comments, and hopes that it will not fail to supply them in its next report.

1. Articles 9, paragraph 3, and 14, of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply details on the periodicity and content of the training seminars and workshops for labour inspectors concerned with the agricultural sector as well as the impact of evolution in the global numbers of inspectors on the number of inspections carried out in agricultural undertakings.

2. Articles 15 and 21. The Committee requests the Government to supply details on the practical effects of the recent decentralization of labour services on the frequency of inspections and to specify the manner in which the provisions of Decree No. 95-395 of 29 September 1995 regarding the allowances made to labour inspectors who are concerned with agriculture and consequently have specific transport requirements. The Government is requested in particular to provide information on the manner in which transport expenses of labour inspectors concerned with agriculture are defined and reimbursed.

3. Labour inspection and child labour. Referring to its 1999 general observation, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply information on the measures taken or contemplated to develop inspection activities in regard to application of legal provisions relating to the employment of children and young persons in agricultural undertakings.