site.btaGeneral Labour Inspectorate Finds More than 170,000 Irregularities in 40,200 Checks Performed in 2019

February 6 (BTA) - In 2019 the General Labour Inspectorate (GLI) performed 40,200 checks for health and safety at work in all economic sectors and found more than 170,000 irregularities, the GLI said in a press release Thursday.

The highest number of checks, 5,800, were conducted in construction, followed by 5,170 checks in plant-growing. One in every four checks was in either of the two sectors, as they are perceived as high-risk in terms of occupational health and safety.

GLI conducted 9,850 checks in implementation of mandatory prescribed actions. Failure to implement such actions was established in a little over one per cent of the cases.

The two most frequent irregularities concerned labour relations and provision of proper health and safety at work.

Among the labour relations irregularities, the most frequent concerned labour remuneration, in particular, failure to pay additional remuneration for length of service and experience, for working during official holidays, for night work, and non-payment of due compensation.

GLI imposed 164,540 coercive administrative measures on employers. There were 300 cases when machinery, facilities and working stations which were found to pose a direct risk to human health and safety, were ordered to be shut down.

The total amount of the effective penalties imposed by the GLI is close to 13 million leva. RY/ZH
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