Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2003, published 92nd ILC session (2004)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Sao Tome and Principe (Ratification: 1982)

The Committee notes the Government’s incomplete replies to its previous comments and the two reports on labour inspection attached thereto.

Article 14 of the Convention. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would take prompt measures to ensure that the labour inspectorate is informed of industrial accidents and cases of occupational disease in such cases and in such manner as may be prescribed by national laws or regulations, and provide relevant information.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee notes that the inspection reports sent by the Government fall short, both in form and in substance, of the requirements set by the Convention. Drawing the Government’s attention to paragraphs 272 et seq. of its General Survey of 1985, in which it stressed the importance of such reports from both a national and international point of view, the Committee once again expresses the hope that the Government will soon be able to report that measures have been taken to ensure that the central inspection authority has fulfilled, if necessary with ILO technical assistance, the obligations laid down by the above provisions of the Convention.

The Committee is addressing a request on other points directly to the Government.