All publications: social dialogue + tripartism + labour relations + collective bargaining + collective agreements

2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean

This edition provides evidence of the effects of an unprecedented international crisis that has cast a shadow over the global economy and is reflected in the employment situation in the region. Employment will be a challenge in 2009. As ILO...

ILO role in economic and financial crises: Lessons from the 2002 Argentine crisis and its aftermath

Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 4

Brochure

Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme 2006-2009

Bangladesh Decent Work Country Programme was developed with active participation of tripartite constituents and has been implemented for the period 2006-2009, focusing on improving skills and entrepreneurship for enhanced employability and...

Concept Note - Asia Pacific Conference on "Right to Form Unions and Right to Collective Bargaining: A Campaign for Ratification and...

Working Paper 3: Collective bargaining on employment

This paper examines the manner in which industrial relations actors have used collective bargaining to address issues of employment and employment insecurity. While the bulk of collective bargaining over the last two decades has been on "how to"...

Working Paper 2: Industrial relations and collective bargaining: Trends and developments in South Africa

This paper is part of a comparative study examining industrial relations developments in different countries and regions of the world. It examines how industrial relations systems and practices in South Africa have evolved and are adapting to meet...

Subregional Tripartite Conference: Strengthening the Mechanisms of Labour Dispute Prevention and Amicable Resolution in the Western Balkan...

This report reflects up to date developments on the functioning of alternative labour disputes resolution mechanisms in the participating countries, and the proposed Action Plans to increase their effectiveness and to reach out to their...

Social dialogue

National framework on social dialogue (In English, Sinhala and Tamil)

As a part of the ILO’s 90th anniversary celebrations, on 24 April 2009, the ILO was instrumental in developing and launching, through tripartite consultations, a National Framework on Social Dialogue, for employers and employees.

Child labour component of ILO-Norway Framework Agreement - ACTEMP Component (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project INT/06/55/NOR - Evaluation team: Karstein Haarberg, David Gairdner

Report of the Director-General. Third Supplementary Report: Measures taken by the Government of Belarus to implement the recommendations of...

Freedom of association and collective bargaining: Indonesian experience 2003-2008

Provides an update on the progress of implementing and realizing freedom of association and collective bargaining in Indonesia over the past five years (2003 – 2008).

Better Factories: Cambodia (Mid Term External Evaluation Summary)

Projects: CMB/05/50/USA,CMB/03/01/USA, and CMB/02/50/USA - Evaluation consultants: Paul Deuster, Barry MacDonald and Don Zimmerman

8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on social dialogue

Over the past 10 to 15 years, the industrial relations’ map of Europe and Central Asia has changed significantly. While in the early 1990s, social dialogue was practiced in less than half the region, in 2008 the large majority of countries at least...

Guidelines – Socially-sensitive Labour Force Restructuring in South Eastern Europe

These Guidelines were elaborated with a view to assisting managers, workers’ representatives and governments concerning measures and processes to be considered when restructuring the labour force. They give, first, an overview of the international...

Brochure - Social Dialogue at work: Voices and choices for women and men

February 2009 theme of the Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work Campaign, 2008-2009

2008 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

Urban unemployment declined for the fifth consecutive year in 2008 in Latin America and the Caribbean, but the international crisis brought to an end the positive trend and it is estimated that in 2009 the number of unemployed persons could...

Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

Eighth Supplementary Report: Observance by Zimbabwe of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948...

Global Wage Report 2008/09 Towards policy coherence: Minimum wages and collective bargaining

The first in a new series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews major trends in the level and distribution of wages around the world since 1995. It considers the effects of economic growth and globalization on wage...

Report of the Officers of the Governing Body. Complaints concerning the non-observance by Zimbabwe of the Freedom of Association and...