Section 4: Compliance with the Code of Ethics

Labour inspectors at all levels of the hierarchy ensure compliance with this Code.

Enforcement officers take an oath to perform their duties in accordance with this Code. The oath is taken at the time of their first assignment to a control unit, in open court, before the president of the judicial court within whose jurisdiction their place of assignment is located. The wording of the oath is as follows: “I undertake to perform my supervisory duties with dignity, impartiality, integrity, neutrality and probity….

Without prejudice to the powers of the ethics officer provided for in article 28 bis of the aforementioned Act of 13 July 1983, employees involved in labour inspection activities may refer to the Conseil national de l’inspection du travail (National Labour Inspection Council) any action taken by an administrative authority that is likely to directly and personally undermine the conditions in which they must be able to carry out their…

Without prejudice to the powers of the Conseil national de l’inspection du travail, employees of the labour inspection system may refer any matter falling within the scope of the latter’s duties to the ethics officer.