Relocations and closures of companies, layoffs, technical unemployment, lower wages and telework due to the security and health situation… Burkina labor inspectors and controllers are looking into these Thursdays challenges, on the occasion of their 5th national conference.
Labor inspectors and controllers met this Thursday, on the occasion of the 5th edition of their national conference with the aim of finding solutions to security and health challenges and proposing recommendations on labor legislation.
“These reflections should ultimately identify innovative strategies and solutions that will allow us to be in tune with the realities of the world of work in this context of security and health crisis and to better serve the actors of the world of work”, declared the Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Protection, Bassolma Bazié.
According to Mr. Bazié, the security crisis and the health crisis linked to COVID 19 have consequences on the world of work in general and on the exercise of the missions devolved to the labor inspectorate in particular.
“They lead to closures and relocations of companies as well as the decline of activities in different sectors of activity with their corollaries of layoffs and precarious working conditions”, he added.
The Minister in charge of the Public Service, Bassolma Bazié spoke this Thursday in Ouagadougou, during the opening of the 5th edition of the national conference of labor inspectors and controllers of Burkina Faso, placed under the theme: “the inspection in the face of health and safety challenges”.
Bassolma Bazié informed that during the two days of work of the Conference, the reflections will be centered on three major themes.
Firstly: the abuses, shortcomings and violations observed in the current security and health context, which are not specifically covered by the existing legal provisions and which must be brought to the attention of the competent authority.
Secondly, participants will discuss the contribution of labor inspection services in the fight against terrorism and the spread of epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19, in relation to their missions.
Third, the use of information and communication technologies for the performance of labor inspection missions in the context of security and health crises in terms of conciliation and control.
“We are going to think about how the labor inspectorate can intervene in areas with strong security challenges and provide answers in relation to the national legislation that we must bring to the authority, in particular to make proposals for improving working conditions. in times of crisis,” said Labor Director General Roland Sawadogo.
Mr. Sawadogo noted that a technical secretariat is responsible for implementing the recommendations at the end of the conference and “we dare to believe that at the end of the exchanges, the labor inspectorates will be able and equipped to deal with health and safety challenges in the world of work”.
It should be noted that the annual general report on the labor inspection services for 2021 indicates that the number of inspections of establishments increased from 1,590 in 2020 to 1,853 in 2021, i.e. an increase of 16.54%, which made it possible to affect 39,778 workers in 2021 compared to 37,625 in 2020, an increase of 5.72%.
In terms of settling labor disputes, all 13 labor inspectorates handled 5,104 individual disputes in 2021 compared to 4,178 in 2020, an increase of 22.16%.
Source: Burkina Information Agency