It is the labour inspector apos s role to monitor labour issues and to conciliate when there are disputes between employees and employers.

2. If a party that invited another party to conciliate does not receive an acceptance of the invitation within thirty days from the day on which the invitation was sent, or within such other period of time as specified in the invitation, the party may elect to treat this as a rejection of the invitation to conciliate.

(a) The parties to an agreement to conciliate have, at the time of the conclusion of that agreement, their places of business in different States or

(a) If a party has more than one place of business, the place of business is that which has the closest relationship to the agreement to conciliate

The law obliges an employer wishing to dismiss or lay off all or part of his permanent staff for economic or technological reasons first to inform the Labour Inspectorate, which must then attempt to conciliate the parties.

See, for example, the preamble of the 1868 St. Petersburg Declaration, The Contracting or Acceding Parties reserve to themselves to come hereafter to an understanding whenever a precise proposition shall be drawn up in view of future improvements which science may effect in the armament of troops, in order to maintain the principles which they have established, and to conciliate the necessities of war with the laws of humanity.