Labour and Social Security Inspectorate

Labour and Social Security Inspectorate
Inspección de Trabajo y Seguridad Social
Agency overview
FormedMarch 1, 1906; 118 years ago (1906-03-01)
TypeAutonomous agency
JurisdictionSpanish government
Headquarters63 Paseo de la Castellana
Madrid
Employees+3,200 employees
Annual budget€206.4 million, 2023[1]
Agency executive
  • Carmen Collado Rosique, Director
Parent departmentMinistry of Labour
WebsiteInspectorate' Web Site(in Spanish)

The Labour and Social Security Inspectorate (ITSS) is a Spanish autonomous agency in charge of the control of the compliance with labour and social security legislation. It also offers technical advice and, where appropriate, conciliation, mediation and arbitration in these matters.[2] The ITSS is, therefore, the apex of the Labour and Social Security Inspection System.

The law defines the matters of competences of the ITSS as "rules of social order". These rules, on which the ITSS exercises the functions of inspection and, where appropriate, sanction, cover all labour matters, prevention of occupational hazards, social security and social protection, labour placement, employment, vocational training for employment and unemployment protection, social economy, emigration, migratory movements and foreigners work and equal treatment and opportunities and non-discrimination in employment, among others.[2]

The Inspection staff is made up of senior technical and national qualification career civil servants, belonging to the Labour and Social Security Inspectors Superior Corps and the Labour Sub-Inspector Corps. This staff is always attached to a public administration and, because Spain's decentralized system, this administration may be the State one or a regional one. The ITSS is currently made up by more than 3,200 employees, of which around 2,000 are inspectors and sub-inspectors.[3]

The current Director of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate is Carmen Collado Rosique, since September 2021.[4]

  1. ^ "State Budget 2023" (PDF).
  2. ^ a b "Law 23/2015, of July 21, on the System of Labour and Social Security Inspection". www.boe.es. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  3. ^ "La plantilla de inspectores y subinspectores de Trabajo alcanza cifra récord, con 2.055 efectivos". Europa Press. 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2019-10-05.
  4. ^ "Carmen Collado, nueva directora de la Inspección de Trabajo". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). 2021-09-14. Retrieved 2021-09-15.