Labour Inspector ( 10 Positions) – MIFOTRA

Job description 

– Key Responsibilities: Labour inspector is responsible of ensuring decent and productive jobs through ensuring labour governance, compliance inspections, labour disputes prevention and mediation, occupational safety and health and prevention of child labour.
– Functions:
1. Ensuring decent and productivity-based compliance inspections
Tasks/Responsibilities
– Ensuring the development of informed annual compliance plans
– Conducting compliance-based instead of traditional inspection inspections
– Building competent labour inspection personnel
– Enhancing digitalization of labour inspection systems
– Influencing the review National procurement Laws and Regulations to make Decent Work a bidding requirement
– Ensuring the establishment of partnership agreements with various Stakeholders
– Ensuring mainstreaming Decent Work into annual action plans by various Stakeholders
– Ensuring the development of reporting templates for Decent Work mainstreaming
– Conducting trainings on Decent Work mainstreaming among Stakeholders
– Establishing Decent Work mainstreaming steering committee
– Monitoring the implementation of Decent Work requirement among successful bidders
– Enhancing the role of labour inspections with priority to Decent Work indicators such as: Notification and payment of employees’ contributions to RSSB, payment of employees’ salaries through banks and other financial institutions, issuance of employment contracts to employees, etc.
– Conducting awareness campaigns among employers through media, meetings and forums on formalization of informal workers
– Enhancing the involvement and partnership with various Government Institutions, Employers and Trade Unions in the journey to formalization
– Incentivizing formalization with various opportunities




2. Ensuring workplace safety and health for conducive working environment, decent work and productivity
Tasks/Responsibilities
– Communicating the benefits of workplace Safety and Health to enterprises through media columns, trainings, brochures, meetings, forums and other means of communication;
– Providing practical guidance and tools to support a systematic, effective and efficient management of Safety and Health;
– Developing and promote practical tools to help workplaces identify and quantify business benefits;
– Conducting research studies on workplace safety and health in the business and national development
– Reinforcing enterprises to conduct prior Risk Assessment to prevent workplace hazards;
– Promoting a systematic and effective management of Safety and Health through sector/industry accreditation/certification programmes and industry training programmes;
– Recognizing excellence in Safety and Health management through awards and other schemes
– Enhancing the effectiveness of OSH committees.

3. Ensuring elimination and prevention of child labour
Tasks/Responsibilities
– Enhancing child labour prevention mainstreaming into decentralized entities Imihigo
– Enhancing community involvement in child labour prevention through awareness campaigns
– Enhancing the role of child labour prevention committees especially at Village level
– Enhancing the role of community opinion leaders in prevention of child labour
– Enhancing seamless coordination of stakeholders’ efforts on child labour.

4. Enhancing labour governance and social dialogue
Tasks/Responsibilities
– Promoting workplace cooperation for better labour relations and productivity
– Promoting collective bargaining for more enhanced working conditions
– Conducting awareness campaigns among employers and employees on the importance of social dialogue practices at establishment level in conducive employment relations and productivity
– Supporting enterprises on establishment of social dialogue practices
– Enhancing the role of compliance forums in promoting social dialogue at establishment level
– Conducting awareness campaigns on the role of collective bargaining in DW attainment
– Facilitating Social Partners on collective bargaining practices
– Conducting trainings to build effective workers representatives




– Conducting awareness campaigns among employers to embrace the role of workers representatives.