Tools and Services
2010
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Publication
Making migration a development factor: the case of North and West Africa
28 April 2010
Many individuals migrate in the hope of attaining better living and working conditions for themselves and their families – a fact which highlights the important role of the labour market for the individual in the migration experience. But the labour market also plays an important role in the manner in which migrant workers contribute to economic development in the country of destination and how migration influences development in the country of origin.
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Publication
Extending the scope of application of labour laws to the informal economy
15 April 2010
Digest of comments of the ILO’s supervisory bodies related to the informal economy
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Publication
The fundamentals of labour administration
28 January 2010
A well-coordinated, professional and efficient labour administration machinery is essential to the effective governance of the labour market. This book will be an invaluable resource for labour administrators, labour inspectors, conciliators, employment service officials, governments, workers, employers, researchers and professionals.
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Publication
Compliance with labour legislation: its efficacy and efficiency
19 January 2010
This volume is part of research and studies under the new Programme on Labour Administration and Inspection. The relationship between labour law and its efficacy and efficiency is not a new subject. However, the debate around this topic is becoming even more important in the light of the current crisis.
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Publication
In search of decent work. Migrant workers' rights: A manual for trade unionists
13 January 2010
Migration is primarily a labour issue. It concerns the movement of workers who cross borders to find employment, as well as the necessity of equal treatment, good working conditions and rights for these workers. The purpose of this manual is to guide the trade union movement's participation in shaping migration policies by promoting sound labour migration practices and reaching out to migrant workers. It aims to ensure that migration benefits the countries of origin as well as destination countries, and both migrant and non-migrant workers.
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Resource list
Local Resource-Based Approaches for Infrastructure Investment - Source Book
01 January 2010
2009
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Project
Work Improvements in Small Enterprises programme (WISE+)
11 December 2009
Work Improvement in Small Enterprises (WISE) is a training programme that empowers small and medium enterprises to take practical and low-cost action to improve working conditions.
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Instructional material
WISE+ full training package (Action Manual and Trainers' Guide)
11 December 2009
The new WISE+ training package brings together the WISE Action Manual (1997) with the new WISE-R Action Manual to create a complete WISE+ Action Manual. We have also created a second binder, which contains the WISE and new WISE-R Trainers’ Guides.
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Meeting document
Report I(B) - Report of the Director-General: The cost of coercion
12 May 2009
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Guidelines
Promoting Equity: gender-neutral job evaluation for equal pay. A step-by-step guide
10 January 2009
This Guide, to be used when mplementing the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal value, free from discrimination based on sex, as enshrined in the ILO Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100), is in keeping with the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and, in particular, with the 2003 and 2007 Global Reports devoted to equality at work. It is meant as a tool to be used to promote this principle in many different workplace environments. To date, the ILO Convention No. 100, adopted in 1951, has been ratified by 167 countries. However, despite this broad consensus regarding the principle enshrined in it, the pay gap between women and men remains a persistent and universal fact of the labour market. Recent statistical surveys have revealed that this gap exists in countries with very diverse economic structures and that, although the gap is decreasing in most of these countries, this progress is being achieved very slowly. The gap persists despite the significant gains women have made in terms of education and work experience.