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See also

  1. Rules of the Game: a brief introduction to International Labour Standards

  2. ILO Helpdesk for Business on International Labour Standards

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

    5th Edition (March 2017)

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

  5. 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. ILO centenary initiatives

    The standards initiative

Supervisory bodies and procedures

General Introduction
  1. Supervising the application of standards
    ► 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. 2017 Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations
    • General Report
    • Corrigendum
  2. 2017 General Survey on occupational safety and health
  3. 2017 Report of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards
  4. 382nd Report of the Committee on Freedom of Association (June 2017)
Complaint procedures
  1. List of representations under article 24 of the ILO Constitution
  2. List of Commissions of Inquiry

What's new

  1. Forced labour

    Switzerland reaffirms its commitment to combating all forms of forced labour

    28 September 2017

  2. 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.

  3. Forced labour

    Spain joins the global movement to combat forced labour

    21 September 2017

  4. Collective bargaining

    Canada ratifies the Collective Bargaining Convention

    14 June 2017

    Canada has now ratified all eight ILO Fundamental Conventions

  5. Forced labour

    Denmark joins renewed fight to end forced labour

    14 June 2017

  6. Forced labour

    Sweden joins the global movement against forced labour

    14 June 2017

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Equality of opportunity and treatment

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

    13 June 2017

  10. 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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