– 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.