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Labour law

The adoption of labour laws and regulations is an important means of implementing ILO standards, promoting the ILO Declaration and the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and putting the concept of Decent Work into practice. Under the ILO Constitution, the Office is committed to offering technical cooperation and advisory services to member States and to assist them in assessing and, where necessary, framing or revising their labour laws. This includes assistance in the development of national laws and regulations to allow ratification of Conventions or implementation of the corresponding principles.

Key resources

  1. NORMLEX - Database on International Labour Standards

    Comprehensive database providing open access to the latest information on ILO international labour standards as well as national labour and social security laws.

  2. NATLEX - database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation

    Records in NATLEX provide abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and they are indexed by keywords and by subject classifications. Each record in NATLEX appears in only one of the three ILO official languages (English/French/Spanish). Where possible, the full text of the law or a relevant electronic source is linked to the record.

  3. EPLex - Employment protection legislation database

    EPLex contains information on the employment termination laws of some 85 countries. The information is broken down to cover more than 50 variables addressing all the key topics of employment protection legislation. The database is updated annually to facilitate the analysis of impacts and trends over time by theme and by country.

Highlights

  1. How to find international and national labour law

  2. National Labour Law Profiles

News

  1. The global impact of e-waste: Addressing the challenge

    20 December 2012

  2. Workshop on labour administration and inspection, 19 to 23 November 2012, Lima, Peru

    23 November 2012

  3. Decent Work in Myanmar - New ILO programme addresses the building of democracy

    14 November 2012

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