Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Gibraltar

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report received on 7 April 2010.

With regard to its previous comments on the absence of an annual labour inspection report, the Government indicates that both the labour inspectorate and the health and safety inspectorate can provide statistics and other information relating to their work and that the Committee is invited to seek any specifically related information as it may require. The Committee recalls that according to Articles 20 and 21 of the Convention, the central inspection authority should publish and communicate to the ILO an annual general report on the work of the inspection services and such report should deal with the following: (a) laws and regulations relevant to the work of the inspection service; (b) staff of the labour inspection service; (c) statistics of workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein; (d) statistics of inspection visits; (e) statistics of violations and penalties imposed; (f) statistics of industrial accidents;  and (g) statistics of occupational diseases. In its previous comments, the Committee, while noting the statistics provided by the Government for the period 2002–05 relating to the inspections carried out, the cases taken to court and the reportable injuries, had observed that there was no mention of the number of workplaces liable to inspection and the number of workers employed therein. The Committee notes that in its latest report the Government indicates the number of registered employers (which are taken to reflect the number of workplaces) and the number of workers employed therein. However, it does not provide updated statistics on the inspections carried out, the cases taken to court and the reportable injuries for the reporting period. Recalling once again the importance of publishing an annual inspection report as part of a mechanism for the ongoing improvement of the functioning of the labour inspectorate and the health and safety inspectorate, the Committee once again requests the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that the central labour inspection authority fulfils its obligations to this end and to describe such measures or to indicate the difficulties encountered in this regard.

Meanwhile, the Committee requests the Government to provide statistical information on the above items in its next report.