A Comparative Study on Duties, Powers and Obligations of Labour Inspectors in Iran Labour Laws and International Labour Standards
Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics
Seyed Mohammad
Hashemi
1
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Ali
Hajivand
2
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Keywords: Duties, Powers and Obligations, International labour Standards, National Laws and
, 
, Regulation, The Principle of Impartiality ,
Abstract :
Whereas the labour inspection system is a public function and aresponsibility of government, therefore, the necessity dictates that labourinspectors shall be composed of public qualified officials, and they also haveexecutive, regulatory, advisory, corrective, making policy and preventiveimportant duties. Hence, In order to enforce these duties in premises, they, inaddition to have certain rights and powers, should enjoy the stability andindependence of the employment, so that they exercise their duties andpowers in impartial manner and free of undue pressures and constraints fromoutside the system, in order to protect the manpower, economic sources andenvironment of work that are, nowadays, considered as essential elements ofsustainable developments. Therefore, labour inspectors, as representatives ofthe State in thr world of work, are empowered considerable rights legalpowers that their proper enforcement of these rights and duties constitutesthe fundamental to the authority of inspectors and inspection system as awhole.Instead of these rights and powers, labour inspectors also undertakethe obligations that consist of: the compliance to the principle of theimpartiality in the process of the inspections, preservation of professionalsecrecies concerned with employers, confidentiality regarding the source ofcomplaints and professionalism and competency.
