YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, NOYAN TAPAN. In 2005-2006, RA State Labor Inspection held 4816 program checkings and 299 checkings due to necessity, as a result of which administrative fine of 304 mln 181 thousand 341 drams (nearly 833 thousand USD) was collected and transferred to the state budget. As Inspection Head Haroutiun Haroutiunian said at the January 31 press conference, the violations mainly related to norms of labor legislation and labor contract (45 mln drams). 2300 cases of non-registered employees (administrative fine is 115 mln drams), 1025 cases of absence of employees' badges in the sphere of commerce and service were also registered (administrative fine is 51 mln 250 thousand drams). The inspection head said that the number of application-complaints grows year by year. These application-complaints are mainly received from employees of private institutions. In his words, nearly 347 application-complaints relating to violation of labor legislation were received from citizens in 2005-2006. H.Haroutiunian said that in 2006 the inspection was replenished with movable technical equipment. In his words, this enables to exercise control over healthy and safe conditions of work, including control over dangerous chemical substances, level of radiation, dust, noise, their correspondence to permissible norm.

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