Africa-Press – Cape verde. The head of the administration, inspection and occupational safety service of the International Labor Organization defended this Wednesday that the Member States of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) take advantage of synergies to adapt the new international guidelines in this area.
ILO encourages CPLP countries to adopt new international guidelines on labor inspections.
The head of the ILO considered, in statements to Lusa, that there could be “sharing of information, knowledge and experiences” and “synergies” between the nine member states of the CPLP to accelerate the process of adapting their labor inspections to the new measures, which, he stressed, are not binding.
Joaquim Pintado Nunes, head of the Labor Administration Service, Labor Inspection and Safety and Health at Work at the ILO spoke on the sidelines of the “Forum of Labor Inspections of the CPLP countries: Creating partnerships and strengthening South-South and Triangular cooperation ”, which takes place between today and Wednesday at the organization’s headquarters in Lisbon.
At the meeting, he presented the new ILO guidelines, which he prefers to call “guidelines” for the inspections and labor policies of its Member States (including the nine CPLP).
The new guidelines document “specifically, updates, modernizes and complements the content of two conventions”, one on labor inspection in industry and commerce and the other on labor inspection in agriculture, “already old and since then the world of work has evolved”, he explained.
As the new ILO guidelines were recently translated into Portuguese, the United Nations agency understood that this was “the ideal moment to make them known to the CPLP member states”, explained Joaquim Pintado.
“What we are now seeing with member states is the extent to which their policies can and should be adapted to these guidelines”, and how they can accelerate “sharing of experience and information, knowledge, specializations”.
“It is good to know to what extent, for example, Brazil can support Angola and Angola can support Cape Verde and identify what, from the perspective of inspections of CPLP countries, needs to be improved in light of the content of these new guidelines and see to what extent , through ILO support or bilateral exchange practices, synergies are achieved between Portuguese-speaking countries”, he concluded.
“Although these guidelines are not legally binding, they are based on the principles, rights and duties set out in international labor standards, and nothing contained in them is intended to justify any changes in the obligations of Member States that have ratified these standards”, it states. the guidelines document presented today to the nine member states of the CPLP.
The guidelines concern the structure and functions of the labor inspection system, its organization, policy, planning and monitoring, the status and career of labor inspectors, inspection powers and methods, inspection control measures.
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