E-ACADEMY ON LABOUR ADMINISTRATION, LABOUR INSPECTION AND WORKPLACE COMPLIANCE

The Academy provided participants with a unique opportunity to gain new insights, share experiences and reflect on key issues, trends and challenges relating to workplace compliance through labour inspection. The Academy also addressed the needs and responses of governments, both in the short-term scenario of the pandemic and post-pandemic COVID-19, and in improving the labour market governance and the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in the medium and long term. OBJECTIVES By the end of the Academy, participants were able to: • Describe the future of work and the role of labour inspection and labour administration. • Summarize the key issues to take into consideration to ensure the fundamental principles and rights at work. • Recognize good practices for an effective COVID-19 response by the labour inspection. • Identify the ILO guidelines for an efficient planning and workflow for labour inspection both in general and in selected sectors of activity. • Apply a specific labour inspection methodology to the informal economy. • Describe successful experiences for undertaking the inspection of psychosocial factors. • Evaluate the feasibility of applying new tools, recruitment and training strategies information and communication technologies, and strategies in the labour inspection system. CONTENT Participants had an opportunity to follow plenary sessions of the Academy, complemented by six (6) Elective sessions of their choice: PLENARY SESSIONS • The future of work and labour administration • E-Administration. How can Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) assist labour inspectorates? • Update on the draft of the Labour inspection guidelines of the ILO • Labour inspection and the Fundamentals Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW): child labour, forced labour, non-discrimination and freedom of association • Strategic Compliance for the institutions of work – enhancing impact on labour law compliance • Labour inspection in the COVID-19 time • Labour inspection careers and curriculum • Labour inspection in the informal economy – approaches for formalization and compliance • Impact of the labour inspection system • How social dialogue can support labour inspection • Inspection of psychosocial factors (violence and harassment at work) • International networks for labour inspection • Sharing participants’ experiences ELECTIVE SESSIONS • Elective 1: Labour inspection and national Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) systems and programmes • Elective 2: Labour inspection and new forms of employment • Elective 3: Labour inspection and OSH managements systems • Elective 4: Labour inspection and social security • Elective 5: Investigation of work accidents and occupational diseases • Elective 6: Conciliation, mediation and arbitration: the role of labour inspection • Elective 7: Inspection of manufacturing • Elective 8: Inspection in agriculture • Elective 9: Inspection in construction • Elective 10: Inspection of Small and Microenterprises (SMEs) • Elective 11: Inspection and control of “intermediary services” • Elective 12: Organization of inspection campaigns