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Regional Alliance of Labour Inspectorates holds open conference
Belgrade,
8 October 2009
State Secretary of Labour and Social Policy Snezana Lakicevic-Stojacic today opened the two-day conference of the Regional Alliance of Labour Inspectorates in South-Eastern Europe, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
Lakicevic-Stojacic said that suppressing illegal labour is important during the crisis in order to fulfil the budget, as well as to prevent injuries in the workplace.
She stressed that Serbia has to integrate its labour inspectorates, adding that inspectors have been trained in a number of regulations but the various ministries remain unintegrated.
Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for Central and Eastern Europe Mark Levin stressed that the role of labour services and inspectorates must be increased in times of crisis, in order to maintain standards of health and safety at work.
He said that the state must suppress child labour, black market labour, injuries at work, and professional diseases and strengthen the social dialogue between authorities and trade unions.
Director of the Labour Inspectorate Radovan Ristanovic recalled that Serbia has started with the introduction of an integrated inspection surveillance in the field of labour relations and health and safety at work. This process should be completed by the end of the year.
Ristanovic said that Serbia does not have a special law on work injury insurance or a law on labour inspection and added that there is still a dilemma on whether it would be better for the inspection service to be concentrated within one inspection organ, or to have a separate inspection service in each ministry. The conference is attended by representatives of all labour inspection services that are members of the Alliance, ie, from Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Azerbaijan, the Ukraine, Montenegro, Republika Srpska, Brcko district, Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation, Macedonia, Moldova, as well as representatives of labour inspections from Portugal, Croatia and France, the International Labour Organisation and the International Association of Labour Inspection.
Representatives of the Serbian Union of Employers, the trade union association Nezavisnost and the Independent Trade Union of Serbia are also participating in the conference.
She stressed that Serbia has to integrate its labour inspectorates, adding that inspectors have been trained in a number of regulations but the various ministries remain unintegrated.
Director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for Central and Eastern Europe Mark Levin stressed that the role of labour services and inspectorates must be increased in times of crisis, in order to maintain standards of health and safety at work.
He said that the state must suppress child labour, black market labour, injuries at work, and professional diseases and strengthen the social dialogue between authorities and trade unions.
Director of the Labour Inspectorate Radovan Ristanovic recalled that Serbia has started with the introduction of an integrated inspection surveillance in the field of labour relations and health and safety at work. This process should be completed by the end of the year.
Ristanovic said that Serbia does not have a special law on work injury insurance or a law on labour inspection and added that there is still a dilemma on whether it would be better for the inspection service to be concentrated within one inspection organ, or to have a separate inspection service in each ministry. The conference is attended by representatives of all labour inspection services that are members of the Alliance, ie, from Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Azerbaijan, the Ukraine, Montenegro, Republika Srpska, Brcko district, Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation, Macedonia, Moldova, as well as representatives of labour inspections from Portugal, Croatia and France, the International Labour Organisation and the International Association of Labour Inspection.
Representatives of the Serbian Union of Employers, the trade union association Nezavisnost and the Independent Trade Union of Serbia are also participating in the conference.
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