This event will work to:

• Enhance knowledge of employers’ organisations and enterprises on international labour standards (ILS), and strengthen the application of ILS at the enterprise level and in general in the supply chains.
• Raise awareness on the importance of socially responsible labour practices for the competitiveness, productivity and access to new markets; emphasizing on the recommendations of the ILO MNE declaration, and the policy coherence with the UNGPs and the OECD guidelines for MNEs.
• Promote the implementation of socially responsible business practices and decent work along global supply chains of the companies participating in this workshop.
• Discuss opportunities and challenges for international cooperation under the “Belt and Road Initiative”(BRI) and how to mainstream international labour standards and RBC from the perspective of labour.

Participants: 80 participants from CEC, Sichuan employers’ organisations and enterprises

Modality: this workshop will be delivered in a hybrid modality, face to face and via Zoom, with a simultaneous translation Chinese-English/English-Chinese

Co-host by ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia and China Enterprise Confederation (CEC)

Agenda

Moderator: Ms. TAO Ying, Deputy Secretary General of Sichuan Enterprise Confederation

09:00-09:20 Opening RemarksMr Youngmo Yoon, Senior Specialist on Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations, ILO Country office for China and Mongolia

10:45-11:40 International Cooperation within the Framework of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Opportunities and challenges on labour relations

Ms Huang Kun, Director, Chinese Academy of Labour and Social Security

11:40-12:30 Socially responsible labour practices in Global Supply Chains

Mr Fredy Guayacan, Programme Manager, Responsible Supply Chains in Asia Programme, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

13:30-14:10 Gender equality at work

Ms HUANG Qun, Senior Programme Officer, ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

14:10-15:30 Fostering Harmonious Labour Relations: Workers’ Participation and Collective Negotiation

Mr Youngmo Yoon, Senior Specialist on Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations, ILO Country office for China and Mongolia

15:40-16:50 Enterprise Labour Dispute Cases Analysis and Reflection

Ms Huang Kun, Director, Chinese Academy of Labour and Social Security

16:50-17:00 Wrap up

Ms LIU Hansong, Ms. LIU Hansong, Director of International Department, China Enterprise Confederation (CEC)