Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Gabon (Ratification: 1972)

Articles 5, 13, 17 and 18 of the Convention. Referring also to its observation, the Committee notes that the activities report of the General Inspectorate of Hygiene and Occupational Medicine draws attention to a number of difficulties, in particular a lack of resources, which impede inspection visits and the effective application of existing occupational safety health laws and regulations. The Government expresses its willingness to adopt further measures with a view to improving the application of legislation.

The Committee draws the Government’s attention to the recommendations made in the ILO’s diagnostic study and again requests the Government to indicate any measures adopted or envisaged with a view to giving effect in practice to national laws defining infringements of established working conditions and the protection of workers and stipulating the applicable penalties, and to provide copies of the relevant texts as well as information on their application on practice.

The Government is also requested once again to take the necessary steps to give effect to the cooperation envisaged under sections 228 and 229 of the Labour Code and to extend that cooperation in the way advocated in the Committee’s general observation of 2009 on this Convention, and to transmit information on any progress made in that regard to the ILO.