News

January 2013

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   Working conditions

   Longest, most unpredictable hours – the plight of the domestic worker

   09 January 2013

   Despite legislation limiting working time in most countries, domestic workers are amongst the least protected and suffer health issues as a result.

2. 

   New survey

   More than 52 million domestic workers worldwide

   09 January 2013

   Millions of domestic workers around the world remain excluded from protection enjoyed by other workers, says a new ILO report.

October 2012

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   Labour standards

   Employment rights essential to economic recovery, says new ILO boss

   01 October 2012

   In his first interview as Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder gives an overview of the major challenges facing the world of work and the ILO.

February 2012

1. News item

   ILO launches comprehensive new database on labour standards

   12 February 2012

   The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a comprehensive new database providing open access to the latest information on ILO international labour standards as well as national labour and social security laws.

June 2011

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   I-News

   Singapore, First Asian country to ratify the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

   15 June 2011

   Singapore has ratified the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006) with the full support of tripartite partners – the seafarer unions and the National Trades Union Congress, as well as the maritime industry and the Singapore National Employers Federation.

June 2010

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   Maritime Labour Convention

   Canada joins other key maritime States to help bring seafarers' decent work Convention into force

   17 June 2010

   The Government of Canada deposited its instrument of ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 with the International Labour Office on 15 June. Canada is the first North American country to ratify this key maritime labour Convention, sometimes called the “super convention”, adopted by the 94th International Labour Conference (Maritime) in Geneva in February 2006.

May 2010

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   Better Work Programme

   Joint ILO-IFC Better Work partnership names U.K. corporate social responsibility expert as new Director

   18 May 2010

   Better Work, a partnership of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has announced that ILO Director-General Juan Somavia has selected corporate social responsibility expert Dan Rees of the United Kingdom as its new Director.

June 2008

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   News item

   Ratifications of the 1997 Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the ILO and of International Labour Standards

   09 June 2008

   The Director of the International Labour Standards Department and the Legal Adviser received ratifications of the 1997 Instrument of Amendment to the Constitution of the ILO and of International Labour Conventions.