Featured below is a list of key resources (Conventions and Recommendations) as well as practical resources and tools for companies interested in aligning their operations with principles contained in international labour standards.
Check out available resources for business on the following topics:
- Child labour
- Collective bargaining
- Discrimination and Equality
- Employment promotion
- Forced labour
- Freedom of association and the right to organize
- Occupational safety and health (OSH)
- Security of Employment
- Wages and Benefits
- Working time
Visit the website of the Multinational Enterprises Programme for other topics related to corporate social responsibility and social policy.
Check out training courses organized at ITC-ILO Turin (Italy):
- On-line course calendar
- Promoting Labour Standards through Corporate Social Responsibility – Instruments and Practices (22-26 October 2012)
- Identifying and investigating cases of forced labour and trafficking (16 - 20 April 2012)
- Implementing labour standards in global supply chains (14 November – 2 December 2011)
- Gender Academy (21 November – 2 December 2011)
- Summer Academy for sustainable enterprise development (20 June -1st July 2011)
- Promoting labour standards through CSR: instruments and practices (20-24 June 2011)
- The new SOLVE: Addressing psychosocial factors through health promotion in the workplace" (16-20 May 2011)
- HIV/AIDS and the world of work: a prevention and social protection perspective (16-27 May 2011)
Check out webinars organized with the UN Global Compact Office
- Human rights and social justice: Let’s end child labour – Tuesday 27 November 2012
- The ILO-IFC Better Work Programme – Tuesday 24 April 2012
- Disability in the Workplace and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network – Tuesday 3 April 2012
- Women’s Entrepreneurship Development: ILO experiences in assisting women entrepreneurs in starting-up a productive business with growth potential – Tuesday 21 February 2012
- HIV and AIDS in the workplace: how companies can make the difference in prevention and treatment of HIV and AIDS – Monday 28 November 2011
- Eradicating Forced Labour from Global Supply Chains – Wednesday 26 October 2011
- Disability in the Workplace and the ILO Global Business and Disability Network - Wednesday 29 June 2011
- Children in Hazardous Work - Tuesday 24 May 2011
- Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value - How do We Get There? - Tuesday 29 March 2011
Guidance on national law and practice:
For information on the national legal context and resources and tools on the national level, please contact the national Ministry of Labour or the national employers’ or workers’ organization.
For more information on the national employers’ federation, visit the website of the International Employers’ Organization, the organization with the largest representativity of the private sector in the world, currently consisting of 148 national employers' organizations from 141 countries (November 2010).
For more information on the national workers’ organizations, visit the website of the International Trade Union Confederation. The ITUC represents 176 million workers in 151 countries and territories and has 301 national affiliates (March 2011).