This project works to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of labor inspections – with an emphasis on violations of acceptable conditions of work – and helps the labor inspectorate become more knowledgeable of court needs and procedures when filing cases with the judiciary, increasing the likelihood that judges will uphold appropriate administrative sanction resolutions for these violations.

By revising the existing Electronic Case Management System (ECMS), the MOL increases its ability to target and strategically plan future investigations using real-time data on labor inspections, sanctions assessed, fines collected and violation recidivism rates.  The improvements made to the ECMS also allow inspectors and supervisors to track the resolution of cases, including cases referred to the labor courts.  

Other activities planned to meet these objectives include:

• developing curricula and training manuals for supervisors and labor inspectors on performance;
• professionalizing the labor inspectorate, increasing the knowledge and awareness of violations;
• training inspectors on investigation skills; and
• developing a social compliance system by educating workers, employers and government officials of the MOL and Judiciary

To unify jurisprudence criteria, the project engages local judges, magistrates from the Labor and Social Security Appeals Courts, and magistrates from the Supreme Court to participate in technical workshops and training seminars in an effort to increase knowledge of case preparation and court needs when cases are referred to the courts for judicial review. 

By building institutional capacities of the MOL and the Judiciary in a coordinated effort, the project seeks to address key drivers of acceptable conditions of work violations as well as to increase effectiveness and efficiency in the application and investigation of labor laws and procedures within the inspectorate and the judiciary.