Events and meetings

2012

1. 3rd Conference on Regulating for Decent Work: Regulating for Equitable and Job‐Rich Growth (RDW), 3-5 July 2013

   3 - 5 July 2012, Geneva

   The 2013 RDW Conference will centre on the role of labour market regulation when job creation is the paramount objective. Papers are invited to address labour market regulation's ideal post‐crisis form, with a special focus on four thematic issues: (a) Comparing and evaluating labour regulation systems; (b) regulating informal work; (c) industrial and employment relations for inclusive growth; (d) new patterns of segmentation and new challenges for promoting inclusive labour markets.

2. 

   Conference "Adjustments in the public sector: scope, effects and policy Issues"

   21 - 22 June 2012, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Brussels

   As a response to the crisis, most European governments put in place policies aimed at reducing their budgetary deficit, thereby carrying out a number of public sector reforms. The conference "Adjustments in the public sector: scope, effects and policy Issues", organized by the ILO in cooperation with the European Commission, aims to identify the nature, the scope and the effects of these public sector adjustments. The conference will be attended by government, trade union and employer representatives and experts of 30 European countries.

3. First Anniversary of Convention 189 (Decent Work for Domestic Workers)

   8 - 8 June 2012, 13:00, Palais des Nations (room XXIII), Geneva, Switzerland

   Meeting on the First anniversary of the Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers: this is a Joint meeting between IUF, IDWN (International Domestic Workers Network) and ITUC (International Trade Unions Confederation). The IDWN will be represented by leaders of domestic workers organizations in 7 countries in the regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbeans. They will inform the ratification processes in their respective countries.

4. Maternity Protection Resource Package - Training of trainers

   29 May - 1 June 2012, Zambia

   The workshop which took place in Siavonga, near the beautiful shores of lake Kariba, involved more than 33 national officials and experts, who were equipped with knowledge, skills and tools to initiate awareness raising and capacity-building around the core theme of maternity protection at work.

2011

1. Tripartite Meeting of Experts on Working Time Arrangements

   17 - 21 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

   This meeting is the first international policy discussion of working time issues in nearly 20 years. The purpose of the meeting is to review and advise on modern working-time arrangements, which includes identifying the main policy issues that would need to be addressed to develop future ILO guidance for advancing decent work in the area of working time.

2. 2nd Conference on Regulating for Decent Work: Regulating for a Fair recovery (RDW), 6-8 July 2011

   6 - 8 July 2011, Geneva

   The Conference will explore the following: - Fairness at the workplace after the crisis - Decent working conditions: regulation's dispensable ideal? - Wages, inequality and economic growth - Enforcing Decent Work Researchers from all regions and from a range of disciplines including law, economics, industrial relations, development studies, sociology, psychology and geography are encouraged to attend.

3. 

   Gender and Migration: Care Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development

   11 May 2011, Istanbul, Turkey (Lufti Kirdar Convention Centre - Galata Room, 13:00-15:00)

   A special event by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) at the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV)

4. Living wage in the 21st century: Why, what and how

   3 February 2011, Geneva

   Workshop on Regulating for Decent Work (RDW)

2010

1. "Building effective wage policies" course, ILO Turin Training Center, Nov. 2010

   29 November - 3 December 2010, Turin, Italy

2. Safety 2010 World Conference

   21 - 24 September 2010, London, United Kingdom

   Safety 2010 is a world conference devoted to the prevention of unintentional injuries and violence worldwide.

3. "Decent Work for Domestic Workers in Canada"

   22 April 2010, Geneva

   Workshop on Regulating for Decent Work (RDW)

4. Presentation on "Workplace solutions for childcare"

   1 January 2010 - 1 January 2011, GVA

2009

1. Conference on Confronting Crises: Policy Responses to Improving Job Quality

   7 - 8 December 2009, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

   Organized by the ILO Conditions of Work and Employment Programme, this conference will bring together national and regional researchers and tripartite representatives from across Africa. The objective of the Conference is to share and examine the efforts being made across the region to improve working conditions, and to identify effective policy and practical approaches for the future.

2. 1st International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) World Congress on Labour market regulations: rationales, indicators and impacts

   24 August 2009, Sydney, Australia

   The Study Group's first meeting was organized in two panels. In the first, the existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the measurement and comparison of labour regulations were evaluated and suggestions made for improvements in theory, measurement and evaluation. The second panel was devoted to "country reports" on empirical studies in various national settings. Presentations were made by Miguel Malo (University of Salamanca); Sean Cooney (University of Melbourne) and Richard Mitchell (Monash University); Judy Fudge (University of Victoria); Sara Charlesworth (RMIT University); and Sangheon Lee (International Labour Organization) and Deirdre McCann (University of Aberdeen).

3. 1st Conference on Regulating for Decent Work: Innovative labour regulation in a turbulent world (RDW), 8-10 July 2009

   8 - 10 July 2009, Geneva

   The Conference will explore responses to current deregulatory agendas and examine techniques for strengthening regulatory measures in substance or scope and heightening their influence on the practices of working life. Researchers from all regions are encouraged to attend and from a range of disciplines including law, economics, industrial relations, development studies, sociology and geography.

4. National Stakeholder Hearing on the plight of Indonesian domestic workers

   19 - 19 May 2009, Plaza FX Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia

   Event organized in conjunction with the Launch of ILO’s Global Report on Forced Labour 2009 “The Cost of Coercion”: Global Report under the Follow up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work”

5. "A missing link: How does flexicurity affect workers' well-beings?"

   19 May 2009, Geneva

   Workshop on Regulating for Decent Work (RDW)

2008

1. "Motives and measurement: towards a new economics of labour regulation"

   28 January 2008, Geneva

   Workshop on Regulating for Decent Work (RDW)

2007

1. "Monitoring employment conditions through workers' surveys"

   26 September 2007, Geneva

   Workshop on Regulating for Decent Work (RDW)

2. Workshops on Regulating for Decent Work (RDW)

   9 June 2007 - 3 February 2011, Geneva

   TRAVAIL has invited leading researchers to the ILO to discuss their research findings and policy implications. They include Giuseppe Bertola (University of Turin), Iain Campbell (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge), Francis Green (University of Kent), Arne Kalleberg (University of North Carolina), Kea Tijdens (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Brendan Burchell (University of Cambridge).