Eliminating Child Labour: Guides for Employers

Employers and Child Labour is designed to help businesses and their organizations understand and take action against child labour. The three practical guides provide ideas, advice and examples for the prevention of child labour, the withdrawal of children from work and the protection of young workers from hazardous conditions.

The package will be a key resource for the executives, directors and managers of employers' organizations and other business associations that wish to engage on this important and sensitive issue.

The guides focus on developing countries and provide examples of enterprises and employers' organizations that have taken concrete action, either by themselves or in cooperation with the International Labour Organization, donors and other local, national and international organizations.

• Eliminating Child Labour: Guides for Employers I-III. (in Spanish) - (pdf 1,83 MB)
  Anne-Brit Nippierd, Sandy Gros-Louis, Paul Vandenberg
  Second edition, ILO, 2009
  
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• Guide One
  Introduction to the issue of child labour - (pdf 2,1 MB)
  • French (pdf 848 KB) • Indonesian (pdf 1,6 MB) • Mongolian (pdf 24,08 MB) • Russian (pdf 1,05 MB) • Spanish (pdf 923 KB)
  The first guide provides definitions, an explanation of the causes and the consequences of child labour, and the rationale for why enterprises should not employ children. In short, it provides an understanding of the issues. The two subsequent guides explain what can be done about child labour from the business point of view.
  
• Guide Two
  Enterprises - (pdf 3,2 MB)
  • French (pdf 1,35 MB) • Indonesian (pdf 2,0 MB) • Mongolian (pdf 31,32 MB) • Russian (pdf 2,72 MB) • Spanish (pdf 1,42 MB)
  Guide Two is addressed to enterprises and explains their options and possible strategies for eliminating child labour.
  
• Guide Three
  Employers' Organizations - (pdf 2,0 MB)
  • French (pdf 689 KB) • Indonesian (pdf 1,1 MB) • Mongolian (pdf 569 KB) • Russian (pdf 995 KB) • Spanish (pdf 688 KB)
  Guide Three is about the collective role that employers' organizations and other business associations can play in helping their members on this important topic.