Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Azerbaijan (Ratification: 2000)

The Committee notes with interest the Government’s first report. So that it may better assess the effect given to the various provisions of the Convention, it would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information on the following points in its next report.

1. Legislation. Please send Decree No. 544 of 27 January 1997 issued by the President of the Republic establishing the State Labour Inspectorate, and Decree No. 20 of 19 November 2002 issued by the Cabinet of Ministers issuing the Statute of the State Labour Inspectorate.

2. Duties of labour inspectors. Please specify the extent to which labour inspectors are responsible for drawing the competent authority’s attention to shortcomings or abuses that are not specifically covered by the existing legal provisions (Article 3, paragraph 1(c), of the Convention). Please indicate the manner in which it is ensured that any further duties entrusted to labour inspectors are not such as to interfere with the effective discharge of their primary duties or to prejudice in any way the authority and impartiality which are necessary to inspectors in their relations with employers and workers (Article 3, paragraph 2).

3. Training of labour inspectors. Please provide detailed information on the content and duration of initial training of labour inspectors and the nature of their subsequent training in the course of employment (Article 7, paragraph 3).

4. Appointment of both men and women. Please indicate the proportion of women on the labour inspectorate staff in the various duties and at all levels of responsibility (Article 8).

5. Size of the inspectorate staff. Please indicate the manner in which the number and distribution of inspectors in the country take account of the criteria set in Article 10 of the Convention.

6. Material resources for inspectors. Please provide information on the budgetary resources assigned to the premises and transport facilities made available to labour inspectors (Article 11, paragraph 1). Please specify the arrangements for reimbursing to labour inspectors any travelling and incidental expenses they need in order to perform their duties (Article 11, paragraph 2).

7. Notification of occupational diseases. Please indicate the arrangements made or envisaged to ensure that labour inspectors are informed of cases of occupational diseases, in accordance with Article 14 of the Convention.

8. Publication of an annual report. Please send to the ILO regularly and within the time limits established the publication containing the annual labour inspection report, in accordance with Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention.