Highlights

• Recommendation on the social protection floor
  June 2012 - The 101st Session of the ILO's International Labour Conference adopted a new international labour standard which calls for providing people with essential health care and benefits, as well as basic income security.

Reports to the Conference

• Report IV(1) - Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization - 1337 Kb
  The Governing Body has placed a standard-setting item on the agenda of the 101st Session (2012) of the International Labour Conference (ILC) on social protection (social security), with a view to the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor (single discussion). This summary report provides information on the law and practice concerning the establishment of a social protection floor or elements thereof at national level, including an overview of the main developments and emerging trends worldwide. This report, accompanied by a questionnaire, was communicated to governments of the member States of the ILO which were invited to send their replies to the Office no later than 1st November 2011.
• Report IV(2A): Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization
  This report was prepared on the basis of the replies received from governments and organizations of employers and workers to the questionnaire and contains the substance of their observations 4 together with the Office’s commentary on the replies and on the proposed text of the Recommendation.
  
  
  
  
• Report IV(2B): Social protection floors for social justice and a fair globalization
  Volume 2(B) of this Report IV contains the French and English versions of the proposed text which, if the Conference so decides, will be the basis for discussion of the standard-setting item on the elaboration of an autonomous Recommendation on the social protection floor at its 101st Session (2012).