A compendium of practice

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

30 January 2020

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.

Issue Brief no. 5 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Negotiating for decent working time - a review of practice

10 December 2019

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 can advance a human-centered approach to the regulation of working time through collective bargaining.

Publication

The Scope of Collective Bargaining in Public Administration

08 November 2019

Research Department Working Paper n°47

Decent work in global supply chains: An internal research review

08 October 2019

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.

Publication

Rules of the Game: An introduction to the standards-related work of the International Labour Organization (Centenary edition 2019)

20 February 2019

A brief presentation of the ILO’s standards policy with a view to facilitating understanding and ownership by the ILO’s traditional constituents, as well as the United Nations system, non-specialists and the broader public.

Working paper

Institutional underpinnings of the minimum wage fixing machinery: The role of Social Dialogue

25 September 2018

This paper provides an overview of how social dialogue is used in minimum wage-setting machineries around the world. It examines in detail the characteristics and role of wage-setting social dialogue bodies in eighteen countries, highlighting key features and good practices.

Factsheet no. 5 - Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining

Grievance handling

19 March 2018

Workers have rights and entitlements that are established in laws, employment contracts, collective agreements and workplace rules, as well as in custom and practice (the way things are normally done – and have been done for a long time – in a particular workplace, industry or occupation). We say that workers have a grievance when they believe that some aspect of these is not being respected by their employer. Grievances are usually described as ‘individual’ when only one worker is involved and ‘collective’ when a group of workers all believe they are suffering from the same breach of the rules. Grievances relate to addressing infringements of existing rights and entitlements, from bullying or harassment, to underpayment of wages, refusal to grant rest periods, weekly rest days or public holidays, discrimination or underpayment of bonuses or other entitlements.

Book

Industrial relations in emerging economies: The quest for inclusive development

15 March 2018

This work examines industrial and employment relations in the emerging economies of Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Turkey while assessing the contribution of industrial relations to inclusive development.

Guide

Voice Matters: Consultation (Industrial and National Levels) Recommendation, 1960 (No. 113)

02 March 2018

This is a user-friendly guide to ILO Recommendation No. 113 on consultation at the industrial and national levels, adopted in 1960. The guide, for use by governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, provides practical information to help ILO constituents apply the Recommendation – including on the meaning of consultation, its aims and scope, the different forms it may take and its various possible outcomes. The guide includes examples of good practice in consultation and cooperation, drawn from ILO member States.

Electronic library on labour administration and inspection and occupational safety and health

e-labadmin - 2020 - USB Card

22 August 2017