# Labour Inspectorate

The state inspectorate for workers' safety and rights. At Zijin, after a worker was killed in 2022, it found that there had been no risk assessment for his job, and in 2025 that smelter workers were not protected from heavy metals; at the EXPO construction site it found 30 foreign workers without work permits. According to parents, the director of the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School did not allow it to carry out an inspection, so it sought misdemeanour proceedings against him.

## Affairs

- [EXPO 2027 – a special law and contracts without public procurement](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/expo-2027): It found foreign workers without work permits and filed misdemeanour charges, including against PowerChina
- [Pressure on teachers and students at the Jovan Jovanović Zmaj Grammar School](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jovina-gimnazija): According to the parents, he sought misdemeanour proceedings because the principal did not allow an inspection
- [Zijin in Bor and Majdanpek: pollution, relocations and workers](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/zijin-bor): It found that Zijin had not assessed the risks of the killed worker's job or of heavy metals, and filed a misdemeanour charge

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/inspekcija-rada  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)