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

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Latvia (Ratification: 1994)

The Committee notes the Government’s report and the documentation supplied in annex. It requests the Government to provide additional information on the following points.

Article 5(b) of the Convention. According to the Government, the labour inspection services and the social partners collaborate in the context of a Sub-Council of the National Tripartite Cooperation Council, as well as through projects and activities at the national and regional levels. The Committee would be grateful if it would indicate the nature and arrangements for such collaboration in the context of the above projects and activities.

Article 10. The Committee notes that in December 2000, of the 181 positions budgeted for labour inspectors, 165 were occupied. It requests the Government to indicate any measures which have been taken or are envisaged to fill the positions in such a way as to meet the needs envisaged in budgetary allocations.

Article 12, paragraphs 1(c)(iii) and 2. The Committee once again requests the Government to indicate whether labour inspectors are authorized, on the one hand, to enforce the posting of notices required by legal provisions and, on the other hand, to decide on the occasion of an inspection visit not to notify the employer or his representative of their presence where they consider that such notification may be prejudicial to the effectiveness of the inspection. If not, the Government is requested to ensure that measures are taken to give effect to these two provisions of the Conventions.

Article 14. Noting that the Medical Advisory Commission of the Professional and Radiation Centre of Medicine of the Paul Stradins Clinic University Hospital notifies the labour inspectorate of cases of occupational diseases and provides the relevant information for investigations, the Committee requests the Government to provide a copy of any relevant text.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would take any necessary measures to ensure that an annual inspection report covering the matters set out in points (a) to (g) of Article 21 is published regularly and communicated to the ILO within the time limits set out in Article 20.