Workplace Compliance through Labour Inspection Guidance and Social Dialogue (WPC)

Specific Objectives

Specific Objective 1: Improving the institutional capacity of Directorate of Guidance and Inspection (DoGI) of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS) and the social partners to increase workplace compliance 

Specific Objective 2: Improving the workplace compliance through strengthening guidance services and awareness raising on decent work

The first outcome of the Project stems from the need for increasing the capacity of the DoGI and social partners. In this regard, the Project aims to improve the effectiveness of the DoGI through a multi-pronged approach. The Project on the other hand will increase the technical capacities of social partners and relevant institutions along with the DoGI on International Labour Standards, EU Acquis and national labour legislation with a gender equality and rights-based approach. Furthermore, strategic and digital adaptation of guidance and inspection services will be facilitated. Within this scope, previous labour inspections will be elaborated by means of inspection reports in order to define the decent work deficits in Türkiye. The role and the future of labour inspection in post-COVID period will be reviewed while developing necessary inspection tools in this context. Trainings will be precisely designed based on capacity and needs assessment of the DoGI. Regarding the strategic and digital adaptation of guidance and inspection services, the Data Centre of the DoGI complying with the labour inspection procedures will be strengthened. The web-based infrastructure of the DoGI will be improved to ensure tracking the guidance and inspection activities as well as obtaining the relevant statistics while contributing to the digitalisation of the DoGI. 

The second outcome focuses more on guidance services to improve workplace compliance and raising awareness of all related parties on decent work. The compliance in elaborately selected sectors, in consultation with social partners with a decent work centred market systems approach, will be improved through guidance. Moreover, awareness of institutions, social partners, the private sector and the general public on decent work will be increased. Moreover, cross-sectoral dialogue mechanisms including comprehensive form of stakeholders will be processed while the guidance action model and plan at the value chain of selected sectors are being implemented. With the purpose of raising awareness of all relevant partners, workshops aiming to strengthen the role of the DoGI along with the international conference on the role and future of labour inspection and guidance in the post COVID period will be organised. Furthermore, promotional activities will be conducted and ILO materials in the area of decent work will be made more accessible in order to ease knowledge transfer towards the DoGI and other relevant Turkish stakeholders.

Burcu Akça Hacıosmanoğlu, Senior Project Coorindator (akca@ilo.org)

Işıl Baltacıoğlu, Finance and Procurement Officer (baltacioglu@ilo.org)

M. Yelda Erdoğan, Training and Social Diaologue Officer (erdoganm@ilo.org)

Çağla Gün, Governance and Compliance Officer (gun@ilo.org)

Ala Yılmazsoy, Project and Administrative Assistant (yilmazsoy@ilo.org)

Emre Kılıç, Finance and Procurement Assistant (kilic@ilo.org)