All publications: labour relations + collective bargaining + collective agreements + workers participation + workers representation

Briefing note

No.3 A challenging future for the employment relationship: Time for affirmation or alternatives

This note discusses the evolution of the employment relationship, the stresses posed by the changing organization of work, the prognosis for fundamental alteration of the relationship, and regulatory challenges in providing adequate protection to...

Institutional Section

First report: Complaint concerning non-observance by the Republic of Chile of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to...

Mongolia policy brief: Freedom of Association and Collective bargaining

This policy brief is part of a series providing information on international labour standards and their implementation in Mongolia.

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 83

Redistributing value added towards labour in apparel supply chains: Tackling low wages through purchasing practices

Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 59

The (missing) link between wages and productivity in the Philippines: What role for collective bargaining and the new two-tier wage system?

Issue Brief no. 4 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Negotiating for gender equality

Inequality of opportunity, treatment and outcomes between women and men still persists in global labour markets. Achieving gender equality in the workplace remains one of the biggest challenges for governments, social partners and management at...

Building Bargaining Power: How Domestic Workers in Lebanon made a courageous step to form a union

In January 2015, 200 women and men from Ethiopia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and beyond founded a Union for domestic workers in Lebanon. The Founding Congress was both a moving and historical occasion: this was the birth of the...

Outcome 14: Promoting the Right to Freedom of Association and the Right to Collective Bargaining (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project: GLO/14/66/SID - Evaluation Consultant: Sandy Wark

Professional conciliation in collective labour disputes: a practical guide

This Guide was developed as a sub-regional tool to support dispute prevention and resolution in Central and Eastern European countries.

Report of The Strategic Planning Workshop Organised by The Organisation of Trade Unions Of West Africa (OTUWA)

Planning workshop to develop strategic plan to guide OTUWA's engagements, operations and activities over the next five years.

ILO Works in Indonesia: 2015 results

Presents the results of the ILO works/activities in Indonesia in 2015.

Illustrated guidelines for gender-responsive employment intensive investment programmes

This guide is the outcome of a study carried out on gender and public works, and has been developed using evidence from 43 EIIPs implemented in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America between 1995 and 2013.

Working within institutions in fragile settings: strengthening national leadership through the embedded approach in Timor-Leste

This paper provides an overview of selected lessons learnt from the ILO’s involvement in fragile Timor-Leste. In particular it focuses on the embedded approach, also referred to as the working within approach, and its significance for the sustained...

Non-standard Employment in Government: An Overview from Canada and Brazil

This report reviews the status and the implications of non-standard employment in the government in two countries: Canada and Brazil. Recent research and policy discussions have been focused on the growth of non-standard employment in the private...

The Situation of Non-regular Public Employees in Local Government in Japan: focus on Gender

Non-regular public employees in the local governments are increasing rapidly in Japan. According to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIAC) (2012b), there were 603,582 non-regular public employees as of April 1,...

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 9

Making decent work a reality for migrant domestic workers

This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.

Domestic Work Policy Brief no. 8

Domestic work voice and representation through organizing

This document is part of a series of briefs on issues and approaches to promoting decent work for domestic workers.

Factsheet no. 4 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

The application of collective agreements

Ideally, workers and managers will ensure that collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) are applied. Managers will make sure that workers are paid the agreed rates and that working conditions are as specified in the latest agreement. Trade union...

Factsheet no. 2 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Representativity and recognition for collective bargaining

If a collective bargaining agreement is to reflect a fair balance between the interests of the workers and employers that it covers, the organizations that negotiate on behalf of each side must be properly representative.

Factsheet no. 1 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Collective bargaining

Negotiating or bargaining is a means of joint decision making. It is used by individuals or groups like trade unions and employers who depend on each other to achieve their goals but who may have different interests.