Jaarverslag 2003 - Databank Milieu

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SUMMARY The Labour Inspectorate (AI) is part of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW). The task of the AI is «to deal with abuses and provide politically relevant information relating to the topic of labour.» The AI is active in the following areas of policy: + working conditions (health and safety at work); + the labour market (illegal employment); + labour relations and conditions of employment (including working time, rest periods, declaring collective labour agreements to be universally binding). The AI is required to produce results in three areas associated with its core tasks, responsibilities and powers: + enforcing legislation and regulations (monitoring and detection); + implementing legislation and regulations (permits and exemptions); + generating policy information. The Labour Inspectorate uses administrative and criminal law instruments in its enforcement work. Organisational changes The organisational structure of the Labour Inspectorate changed on 1 April 2003. The regional directorates have been replaced by four activitybased directorates (Industry, Construction Work, Commercial Services and Public Services) and two issue-based directorates (Labour Market Fraud and Major Hazard Control). The AI also has two central units: the Inspection Support directorate and the Corporate Policy Department. These changes give the AI stronger support and allow it to operate in a more harmonised way. It is now also more accessible to organisations representing employers, employees and individual sectors. The AI was brought within the remit of the General Inspector for Work and Income on 1 January 2004. This has also clarified organisational aspects, drawing a distinction between the enforcement of rules and the policy underlying regulations. Within this context, preparations were made in 2003 for outsourcing implementation tasks in the area of regulations governing conditions of employment. The sphere of action and activities ithin the scope of its activities, the Labour Inspectorate can become involved with any commercial establishment in the Netherlands where work is carried out. At the end of 2003 the AI was aware of 563,000 establishments employing at least two people. Its total net inspection capacity was 244,975 hours. As of 31 December of the year under review, the AI had 914 members of staff, including 452 inspectors, 325 of which operated in the area of working conditions while 127 looked into labour market fraud. The Labour Inspectorate handled 25,403 cases in the year under review. The evolution of AI activity over the past few years is summarised in the table below. 72
Table I Number of inspection activities per type of activity and the inspection capacity devoted to these activities in percentage terms in 2001, 2002 and 2003 2001 2002 2003 Type of activity Capacity in % Cases Capacity in % Cases Capacity in % Cases Active OHS 30.5 14,934 36.6 15,271 33 14,276 Complaints 8.3 2,178 8.2 2,167 9 2,052 Accidents 20.3 2,559 18.2 2,481 22 2,211 Labour market 23.5 3,840 17.3 3,737 17 3,700 MHC 5.4 62 4.5 118 9 322 Monitoring 5.1 1,932 5.9 2,771 5 1,879 Other Reactive 6.8 2,031 6.2 1,506 6 1,079 Total 100 27,536 100 28,051 100 25,499 Focus points Focus points were defined in order to allow the inspectorate to make the most rational and responsible use of its inspection capacity available for enforcement tasks in 2003. In the area of working conditions, these were: OHS obligations, pressure of work, physical demands, carcinogenic substances, hazardous substances and noise. In the area of labour market fraud, they were: the agricultural and horticultural sector, dealing with people involved in providing illegal labour, dealing with notorious transgressors, financial investigations and cooperation with other inspectorate services. Enforcement in the area of working conditions Of inspections carried out into working conditions, 58 per cent led to the setting up by inspectors of an enforcement trajectory following the first intervention. This had to be repeated in six per cent of the follow-up interventions. The corresponding figure for 2001 was eleven per cent. This indicates that the AI’s interventions are becoming more effective over time, as in a higher number of cases the contravention previously observed had been resolved by the time of the follow-up intervention. The most frequently observed contravention was the lack of an up-to-date risk inventory and assessment, or of a plan of action (21%). Eighteen per cent of contraventions related to shortcomings in respect of jobs, seventeen per cent to hazardous substances and twelve per cent to equipment. There are five different types of enforcement instrument. Warnings and requirements are the light instruments, while administrative fines, reports and closure are the heavy instruments. At the end of 2003, administrative fines had been available as an enforcement instrument for working conditions for over four years. Fines are normally imposed on employers, but employees who behave irresponsibly, thereby putting themselves or their colleagues in danger, can also be fined. Fines totalling € 6,797,738 were imposed in 2003, with 21 employees being fined a total of € 2,373. From 1 November 1999 to 1 January 2004 the total fines imposed amounted to € 19,089,970, of which € 17,515,127 has been paid to date. During the year under review, a Bill was submitted with a view to introducing administrative fines into the Foreigner Nationals Employment Act [Wet arbeid vreemdelingen: WAV]. 73
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ARBEIDSINSPECTIE Jaarverslag 2003
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VOORWOORD Zoals bijna elke overheid
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HOOFDSTUK 1 MISSIE, WETTELIJK KADER
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