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

ILO Working paper 6

Access to Justice: A Literature Review on Labour Courts in Europe and Latin America

This paper is aimed at offering an overview of the bibliographical discussion on Labour Courts in Europe and Latin America, stating what specific topics academics have shown interest in.

Brief

Employers and workers negotiating measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, protect livelihoods and support recovery: A review of practice

Global Deal for Decent Work & Inclusive Growth - Thematic Brief

Social Dialogue and the Future of Work

Natural disaster; conflict

Managing Conflicts and Disasters: Exploring Collaboration between Employers’ and Workers’ Organizations

This publication looks at the role that employers and workers, through their respective organizations, play in crisis situations arising from conflict and disaster.

Transition to formality

Transition to Formality and Structural Transformation: Challenges and Policy options

The book examines “new forms of informality” in developed and developing countries, and how our policies can be improved to respond to new evolving realities.

A compendium of practice

Interactions between Workers’ Organizations and Workers in the Informal Economy: A Compendium of Practice

A compilation of concrete examples, drawn from around the world, showing how trade unions have sought to reach out to workers in the informal economy to reduce the decent work deficits they face and support their transition to formality.

Brochure

Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement among wood-processing enterprises in Binh Duong

The publication gives introduction of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement signed among wood-processing enterprises in Binh Duong, and the ILO’s Standards and Significance of Collective Bargaining.

Publication

Extension of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement in Trang Due Industrial Zone - Hai Phong

The publication gives introduction of the Multi-Employer Collective Bargaining Agreement signed among Korean electronics enterprises in Trang Due industrial zone, Hai Phong, and the ILO’s Standards and Significance of Collective Bargaining.

Issue Brief no. 5 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Negotiating for decent working time - a review of practice

This Issue Brief gives an overview of the regulation of working time through collective agreements in different regions of the world and outlines innovative solutions by the bargaining partners. It presents practices from various countries, which...

Governance and Tripartism working paper series

Literature Review on the Governance of Work

This literature review focuses on the most influential and relevant developments in regulation and governance scholarship. In addition, it also draws on work undertaken in a range of complementary disciplines and areas, including industrial...

The Scope of Collective Bargaining in Public Administration

Research Department Working Paper n°47

Decent work in global supply chains: An internal research review

This article provides an inventory of the research carried out by the ILO on decent work in GSCs between 2014 and 2019 and helps to identify the challenges and remaining gaps in terms of research.

International Labour Standards

Social Dialogue, Collective Bargaining and Responsible Business Conduct: Promoting the Strategic Use of the International Instruments for...

The aim of this report is to map and analyse the various International Instruments to promote social dialogue, collective bargaining and responsible business conduct to address the main challenges raised by the ILO Resolution concerning Decent Work...

Philippines labour inspectorate

Building the capacity of the Philippines labour inspectorate: Final project fact sheet

The Philippines labour inspectorate system faces a number of challenges in providing labour inspection services to the country’s 945,000 registered establishments, covering around 7.8 million workers. A 2009 ILO Technical Audit of the Philippines...

Flyer

ILO Convention No. 98: Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention

Reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Convening actors to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (CARING GOLD MINING...

The CARING Gold Mining Project’s overall goal is to increase to address child labour and working conditions issues in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) globally and in Ghana and the Philippines, its pilot countries. It does so by pursuing...

Reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Convening actors to develop and implement strategies to reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale...

The CARING GOLD MINING Project in the Philippines will address the problem of child labour and poor working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) operations by supporting the sector towards setting-up of legal and regulated...

Reduce child labour and improve working conditions in artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Child labour in mining and global supply chains

Child labour in mining is most commonly found in artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM). Even if produced in small quantities at a mine site, cumulatively, the quantity of minerals coming from ASM is significant: ASM accounts for about 20 per cent of...

Law and practice on protecting whistle-blowers in the public and financial services sectors

This paper seeks to map out laws and practices and identify measures in place for the protection of whistle-blowers by analysing a representative sample of laws, regulations and international instruments.

Freedom of association and collective bargaining

Workers' training manual on freedom of association

The Philippines adopted a number of mechanisms that seek to address the issues of workers’ freedom of association (FOA). These mechanisms opened an opportunity for the workers to participate in the investigation and monitoring of FOA cases. This...