Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) - Solomon Islands (Ratification: 1985)

Articles 3, 7, 12 and 16 of the Convention. Functioning of the labour inspection system. The Committee notes that the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), in its concluding observations of 7 July 2025, expressed its concern over the fact that sex tourism and trafficking of women and girls for sexual services and domestic servitude in mining and logging camps are commonplace, often involving the victims’ families, and that the State party has not conducted regular inspections in high-risk sectors (CEDAW/C/SLB/CO/4-5, para. 27(f)). The Committee therefore urges the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that labour inspectors effectively enforce the legal provisions on conditions of work and protection of workers, particularly in relation to the prevention and elimination of child labour and trafficking in persons. It also requests the Government to provide detailed information on the number of inspections conducted in high-risk sectors, the number of violations encountered, particularly with regard to child labour and trafficking in persons, the number of cases referred to the prosecutor and penalties imposed.

The Committee is raising other matters in a request addressed directly to the Government.