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The inspector has the duty to enforce four main labour laws in the USA: the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, the Labour Relations Act, the Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The functions of labour inspection include instructing employees and employers on their rights and obligations, investigating complaints, examining health and safety policies and records, conducting workplace inspections, interrogating worker complaints, advising on labour laws, and issuing compliance orders to enforce legal requirements. Inspectors must ensure measures are taken to provide safe and healthy working conditions for workers.

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QNO. 1 A) : References

The inspector has the duty to enforce four main labour laws in the USA: the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, the Labour Relations Act, the Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The functions of labour inspection include instructing employees and employers on their rights and obligations, investigating complaints, examining health and safety policies and records, conducting workplace inspections, interrogating worker complaints, advising on labour laws, and issuing compliance orders to enforce legal requirements. Inspectors must ensure measures are taken to provide safe and healthy working conditions for workers.

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QNO.

1 A)

The inspector has the duty to enforce following labour laws which the DoL (USA) is
responsible for:
 Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA).
 Labour Relations Act (LRA).
 Compensation of Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA).
 Occupational Health and Safety (OSH) Act
The labour inspection has following Functions:

 To instruct the employees and employers of their rights and obligations to employment laws
 Investigating of complaints about non-compliant employers.
 To examines health and safety policy, Accident report, risk assessment and emergency
procedures, safe system of work, training records of workers, worker fitness record etc.
 Conduct inspections of workplaces to identify unsafe act and conditions and suggest actions
for improvement.
 To interrogate the complaints by the workers.
 Advising employer and employees of their rights and obligations in relation to the labour
laws.
 To conduct the physical inspections of workplace to perform any other prescribed function.
 Inspectors need to be checked what are the measures to providing safe and healthy working
conditions to workers.
 To secure and enforce legal requirements and compliance with an employment law by
securing the undertaking or issuing the compliance orders.
 The inspector can issue a compliance order using his legal mandate if someone does not
comply.

References
 https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/mono-regsafepart03
 http://scm.oas.org/pdfs/2013/CIDI/CIDI04187E01.pdf
 https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?
p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C081
 http://www.iali-aiit.org/en/
 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-public-policy/article/abs/when-the-
workplace-is-the-home-labour-inspectors-discretionary-power-in-the-field-of-domestic-
work-an-institutional-analysis/08BF16CFDDF913C2E8FC59E3CB87CA8B
 http://lima.dife.gov.bd/
 https://www.etui.org/sites/default/files/Hesamag_14_EN_4.pdf
 https://www.ontario.ca/page/occupational-health-and-safety-inspector
 https://www.labourexploitation.org/news/flex-launches-action-plan-tackle-labour-
exploitation-uk

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