The departmental directorates for employment, labour and solidarity, the departmental directorates for employment, labour, solidarity and population protection and the departmental units of the Ile-de-France regional and interdepartmental directorate for the economy, employment, labour and solidarity comprise departmental, infra-departmental or interdepartmental inspection units. The geographical boundaries of an inspection unit may cover all or part of one or more départements under the conditions set out in article R. 8122-6.
Sub-departmental, departmental or inter-departmental control units and inter-regional control units, attached to a regional directorate for the economy, employment, labour and solidarity, are made up of sections, in which a labour inspector or controller exercises his or her powers.
The head of the inspection unit is responsible, in particular for implementing collective action, for coordinating, supporting and steering the activities of the inspection officers. He may provide support for an enforcement operation carried out in the territory of the unit for which he is responsible. They may also, by decision of the Regional Director for the Economy, Employment, Labour and Solidarity, be given responsibility for carrying out the duties of labour inspector in a section within their unit.