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  1. Rules of the Game: an introduction to standards-related work of the ILO

    Centenary Edition 2019

  2. Monitoring compliance with international labour standards: The key role of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

    Centenary Edition 2019

  3. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

  4. ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work

    108th Session of the International Labour Conference (2019)

  5. Tripartite declaration of principles concerning multinational enterprises and social policy (MNE Declaration)

    5th Edition (March 2017)

  6. ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization (2008)

  7. ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (1998)

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Labour standards

International labour standards have grown into a comprehensive system of instruments on work and social policy, backed by a supervisory system designed to address all sorts of problems in their application at the national level.  more

Highlights

  1. Guide on Established Practices

  2. Covid-19: Protecting workers

  1. Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM TWG)

    ► Further information and advice is available from the ILO helpdesk on the SRM TWG (srmtwg@ilo.org).

  2. Training on International Labour Standards

Supervisory bodies and procedures

General Introduction
  1. Supervising the application of standards
    ► Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)
         NEW: Call for expression of interest - Three vacancies on the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)
    ► Conference Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS)
    ► Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA)
Reports of the supervisory bodies
  1. 2020 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
    2021 Addendum to the 2020 Report of the Committee of Experts
  2. 2020 General Survey: Promoting employment and decent work in a changing landscape 
    2021 Addendum to the 2020 General Survey
  3. 2021 Report of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards
  4. 396th Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association (November 2021)
Complaint procedures
  1. Representations under article 24 of the ILO Constitution
  2. Complaints under article 26 of the ILO Constitution
Note
  1. NEW - Voluntary conciliation in the context of the ILO's supervisory system

What's new

  1. Call for expression of interest

    Three vacancies on the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR)

    20 December 2021

    The ILO is seeking candidates to join the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR).

  2. Violence and Harassment

    South Africa ratifies the Violence and Harassment Convention

    16 December 2021

    South Africa became the tenth country in the world, and the fourth African country, to ratify the ILO’s Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190).

  3. © Vitor Marinho 2022

    Social protection

    ILO reaches ratification target for landmark social security Convention

    08 November 2021

    Paraguay has become the 60th country to ratify the flagship ILO social security Convention, No.102, reaching a target set in 2012 by the ILO’s Governing Body.

  4. Publication

    Conference Committee on the Application of Standards: Record of Proceedings (ILC 2021)

    25 October 2021

    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.

  5. Occupational Safety and Health

    Cameroon ratifies the Occupational Safety and Health Convention

    08 October 2021

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