What's new

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   Publication

   Conference Committee on the Application of Standards: Extracts from the Record of Proceedings (ILC 2017)

   22 September 2017

   The Conference Committee on the Application of Standards, a standing tripartite body of the International Labour Conference and an essential component of the ILO’s supervisory system, examines each year the report published by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations.

2. 

   Collective bargaining

   Canada ratifies the Collective Bargaining Convention

   14 June 2017

   Canada has now ratified all eight ILO Fundamental Conventions

3. 

   Forced labour

   Denmark joins renewed fight to end forced labour

   14 June 2017

4. 

   Forced labour

   Sweden joins the global movement against forced labour

   14 June 2017

5. 

   Forced labour

   Iceland ratifies the 2014 Protocol to the 1930 ILO Forced Labour Convention, as part of a renewed global effort to eradicate all forms of forced labour

   14 June 2017

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   Labour Standards

   Belgium has ratified the Invalidity, Old-Age and Survivors’ Benefits Convention, 1967 (No. 128), the Chemicals Convention, 1990 (No. 170), and the Working Conditions (Hotels and Restaurants) Convention, 1991 (No. 172)

   14 June 2017

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   Equality of opportunity and treatment

   Thailand ratifies the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 (No. 111)

   13 June 2017

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   Labour Standards

   Jamaica renews commitment toward International Labour Standards

   13 June 2017

   Jamaica ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006) and the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930

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   © Made By Survivors 2017

   Labour standards

   India ratifies both fundamental ILO Conventions on Child Labour

   13 June 2017

   Historic move confirms India’s “commitment to a child labour free society”. Ratification means that almost all children in the world are covered by Convention No. 182, while coverage of Convention No. 138 jumps from 60 per cent of the world’s children to 80 per cent.

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    Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    Indonesia ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, as amended (MLC, 2006)

    12 June 2017

    Indonesia, an important actor of international maritime trade, is the 83rd Member State of the ILO that ratifies this convention.