Labour Inspector Deadline Dec 2022

Job Description

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

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

• Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Law0 Year of relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial & Labour Relations0 Year of relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Labour Administration0 Year of relevant experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree Industrial & Labour Relations with a recognized diploma in labour law0 Year of relevant experience
  Competency and Key Technical Skills
  • Integrity
  • Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
  • Inclusiveness
  • Accountability
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Client/citizen focus
  • Professionalism
  • Commitment to continuous learning
  • Resource management skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Time management skills
  • Risk management skills
  • Results oriented
  • Digital literacy skills
  • Fluency in Kinyaranda English and or French knowledge of Swahili is an added advantage
  • Knowledge and understanding of labour policies and law;
  • Understanding of proper inspection techniques
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • A transition period for professional certification requirement is three (3) years starting from 01st January, 2021. However, a new entrant without the required professional certification for a given job position shall not be eligible, one (1) year before the expiration of the transition period.

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